FFRG want front loading of single farm payment

Smaller-scale family farmers have backed the front-loaded option for the single farm payment in the Irish implementation in 2015 of the CAP reform.

The first 32 hectares would receive the maximum rate, and a declining scale thereafter, to give smaller farmers a chance, said Farm Family Rights Group (FFRG) chairman Donie Shine at the group’s rally last Sunday at the Michael Davitt Museum, Straide, Co Mayo.

Among the other speakers were Deputy ‘Ming’ Flanagan, Deputy Colm Keaveney and MEP Marian Harkin.