Food production - A challenge that brings opportunity

THE co-operative movement, founded by Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett in the late 1880s, was one of the truly groundbreaking and empowering initiatives in Irish agriculture and food production.

It made a huge contribution to developing rural society and the rural economy.

It turned barely viable farms into small businesses that could more or less support a family. It offered opportunity to those who had spent their lives struggling as subsistence farmers.