About 5% of Ireland's utilisable agricultural area will be needed to accommodate climate plan targets over the next seven years.
And an extra 29,000 hectares will be needed by current dairy farmers, if the maximum stocking rate is reduced to 220kg of nitrogen per hectare from 2024, as part of the nitrates derogation agreement. That would bring the demand for land to 6%.
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