Macra plays its part in CEJA anniversary

Macra members, including national president Kieran O’Dowd and CEO Edmond Connolly, were among those who travelled to Brussels to celebrate the 55th anniversary of CEJA, the European Council of Young Farmers.

CEJA is the voice of Europe’s next generation of farmers to the European institutions. Its main objective is to promote a younger and innovative agricultural sector across Europe and to create good working and living conditions for young people setting up in farming, and those who are already young farmers.

CEJA achieves this by acting as a forum for communication and dialogue between young farmers and European decision makers. The organisation was founded in Rome in 1958. Since then it has coordinated hundreds of seminars, visits, conferences, written reports and directed the concerns of young farmers towards the European institutions.