'Only makes sense' for agriculture community to produce more fuel and fibre

"Climate change is one factor obviously, but also security and supply now is a major factor"

Farmers are "very good at not just taking on something new, but developing it".

With fossil fuel use “on the way out” and farming looking towards a future of increased decarbonisation, “it only makes sense that agriculture will come back to producing more fibre and more fuel” while still producing food, an industry expert has said.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its fallout has “galvanised” European attitudes, and it has been “strongly accepted that we need to get independence of energy”, said Noel Gavigan of the Irish BioEnergy Association.