Agri-Vision report will point the way to an export-led national recovery

IN his column (July 8), Ivan Yates wrote about the future of farming.

While your readers were no doubt interested in reading the views of a former Minister for Agriculture on such an important issue, it is also important that they are informed by the facts.

Mr Yates wants the agriculture sector to become more export focused and concludes a quite informative column with a call on the Government “to establish a 2020 forum to oversee and implement this export-led growth narrative”.