Building on agri-food growth blueprint

Food Wise 2025 was published last week and provides an important signpost to those with ambition and drive around the agri-food industry in Ireland.

I use the word ‘signpost’ because some of the reaction to, and commentary about, the report expresses disappointment with a lack of detail.

Last time I looked, we do not live in a centralised managed economy where a group of bureaucrats hand-feed us on how business and industry should develop. Instead, an attempt is made, using scarce taxpayer resources, to provide an environment in which risk-takers can survive or fail when competing on global food markets.