Bureaucracy helping drive farmers from agriculture

A FARMING leader warns there will be fewer farmers than state and local authority officials enforcing farm regulations, within a decade.

Over-regulation is driving farmers off the land, very many of them can no longer cope with it, said West Limerick farmer, Michael Doody, Chairman of ICMSA’s National Taxation Committee, and an ICMSA National Council member.

He was speaking at a Limerick ICMSA meeting where bureaucracy in farming was strongly criticised.