Coveney to maintain funding for Agricultural Catchments Programme

FUNDING has been expanded to cover a further four years of research into the Teagasc-led Agricultural Catchments Programme, an analysis of soil usage in six different study areas.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney announced the ongoing funding approval at Catchment Science 2011, a three-day international environment conference which continues today in the Mansion House, Dublin.

The conference is jointly hosted by Teagasc, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the British Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Scientists from the USA, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, England, Scotland, Wales, the North and the Czech Republic have been presenting papers for the past three days.