Organic sector is still on the fringes

There has been a huge push toward organic production in the past few decades.

Teagasc has been very involved, and many millions of euro have been spent developing and promoting organic produce. Teagasc has been supportive of organic production and has appointed advisers, and a series of trials and up-skilling of staff has been carried out.

Despite claims to the contrary, organic food has little or no health benefits over freshly-produced non-organic Irish food produced under similar conditions, and within normal health and safety regulations.