This article loaded as a free read, so not flared as paywall.
Once again our increasing reliance on imported fruit and vegetables highlighted as domestic growers are driven out of the market by a combination of hostile elements – the big chains, government indifference, banks and the IFA (who have no interest in horticulture but do have the Dept of Agriculture ear when it comes to investment).
by qwerty_1965
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MIGA bring back homegrown crops
carrots cheaper than ever to me, the consumer.
Win for the taxpayer.
Ireland is basically one big field of grass.
Apples is the one that does my head in.
Local LIDL/Tesco sell apples from New Zealand (pretty much as far away as you can get) or Chile. If you’re lucky you’ll get Italian apples.
But apples grow here just fine, what gives?
One field to grow them all!
But the IFA for years have been saying that we “feed the world?’ Are you saying that they are lying ? /s