CAP shaping up to ‘undermine farmers’ says ICMSA
ICMSA President, Pat McCormack, says CAP is shaping up to undermine farmers by expecting them to do more for less. Picture: Don Moloney.
ICMSA says it is very concerned over how the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is shaping up and fears Ireland is heading towards a situation “where thousands of farm families across the entire country will suffer substantial cuts to their direct payments in addition to new and unsurpassed levels of inspection and regulation”.
The organisation’s president, Pat McCormack, said that what he was hearing on the ground was that farmers would receive less payments, more regulation, and “absolutely nothing for meaningful sustainability”.
