Food and drink exports were resilient in pandemic year of 2020

Minister pays tribute to  farmers and food and drink producers

Tara McCarthy, CEO, Bord Bia: “Behind the remarkable export performance of our food and drink sector in 2020 are seismic challenges at a strategic, category and channel level. Picture: Marc O’Sullivan

Bord Bia has welcomed food and drink exports for 2020 valued at €13bn, falling by only €0.2bn from 2019, despite a year of unprecedented challenge and the largest disruption to normal market operation, globally, since the end of World War II.

Increases were recorded in the value of Irish dairy, pigmeat and sheepmeat exports, along with very significant increases in the value of exports to Africa and the Middle East, as new markets come to the fore.