Agri-food leaders will gain insights into sustainable food growth from international guests at next week’s Agricultural Science Association conference.

THE organisation representing graduates in the agriculture and food industry warned last night about the danger of targeting science and technology for budget cuts as a solution to the current difficulties in the public finances.

FOOD inflation — a blip or a trend — is one of the questions being discussed at this year’s Agricultural Science Association national conference, which takes place in the Radisson Hotel Galway on September 12.