Much more may be asked of agriculture, IFA meeting hears

The IFA's annual meeting took place at a key moment for Irish farming with the sector facing the enormous task of producing food while cutting its impact in the environment, Kathleen O'Sullivan reports

Taoiseach Michéal Martin listens to questions from IFA president Tim Cullinan at the 2022 IFA AGM in Dublin. Picture: Finbarr O’Rourke

More will “inevitably” be asked of agriculture if proposed measures prove insufficient to reduce emissions, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the Irish Farmers Associations’ AGM.

However, the Government was warned that farming should not become a “twilight sector” in a bid to reduce the country’s emissions.