Farmers produced goods in 2012 despite bad weather
Latest Central Statistics Office figures indicate they increased the value of their farm output last year to 25% above a 2007-2009 baseline.
This puts them within 8% of the Food Harvest 2020 target — with seven years left to reach the 33% goal. And better farming conditions this year, along with favourable price trends, except for grain, could leave farmers already within reach of the 10-year target which was set for them only three years ago.
