ICMSA: Budget 2014 must ensure adequate funding of farm schemes

The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association has told the Government that Budget 2014 must ensure adequate funding of farm schemes as these payments are critical to low-income farms.

John Comer, the association’s president, said disadvantaged areas payments and agri-environment payments must be maintained.

The ICMSA was totally opposed to any further cuts in these payments, he warned in the association’s pre-budget submission.