Growers suffer €20m losses due to cold snap

POTATO and other vegetable growers countrywide have suffered losses of around €20 million due to the damage caused to crops in last month’s severe frost.

The Irish Farmers Association estimates that some 6,000 acres of damaged crops have been written off because they can’t be harvested.

Growers in the east of the country have been particularly badly hit, but those in the south have also suffered greatly from the harsh cold weather with entire crops being wiped out in many cases.