NEW research has shown that Irish consumers who are buying organically produced food are doing so primarily out of a growing concern for the environment.

INCREASED efforts are being made to encourage more of the country’s 135,000 farmers to consider going the organic route to meet consumer demands.

FARMERS with a big acreage of land have been urged to go the organic route and supply the multiple stores with produce.

THERE was a time when people living in rural Ireland grew and produced their own food.