Farm View: Landowners slow to take up agroforestry

The current forestry programme (extended to the end of 2022) is the first to include agroforestry, with a target of establishing 195ha of agroforestry between 2015 and 2020.

Irish landowners have largely resisted grant aid offers of €6,220 per hectare to establish agroforestry.

Only 18 agroforestry grant aid applications, comprising 42 hectares, have been approved and planted since 2015.