CAP proposals will reduce Irish tillage sector

Greening proposals in the CAP reform will gradually reduce Ireland’s tillage industry, says Fine Gael TD for Cork East, Tom Barry.

“This is a very serious matter for the tillage industry,” he told the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, during a recent debate on CAP reform.

Mr Barry is one of the 10 members of the Teagasc Tillage Crops Stakeholder Group which recently presented a development plan for the Irish tillage crops sector to Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney.