Prices paid to farmers ‘must reflect rising costs’

FARMERS warned yesterday that the prices they are paid for their products must go up to reflect their increasing costs.

IFA president Pádraig Walshe said the 20-yearcycle of falling farm product prices and zero price increases was over.

He said that in the past decade, general price inflation in Ireland totalled 40%. In the same period, food prices in supermarkets rose by almost 30%.