{"id":220461,"date":"2025-06-28T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220461\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T05:01:08","slug":"ni-agriculture-farm-incomes-have-increased-by-almost-two-thirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220461\/","title":{"rendered":"NI agriculture: Farm incomes have increased by almost two-thirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir said the changes were &#8220;reflective&#8221; of &#8220;particularly volatile&#8221; markets over the last five years, outside of his control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Consequently, my department focuses effort on helping farmers mitigate cost and price pressures by improving their productivity and resilience, while also addressing their environmental sustainability,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These are the goals I have set out within the new Sustainable Agriculture Programme and I would encourage all farmers to avail of the support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Total Gross Output for agriculture was 8% higher in 2024 (\u00a33.19bn). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a 9% increase in the value of output from the livestock sector, while field crops increased by 3% and horticulture increased by 10%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dairy sector remains the largest contributor at \u00a31.1bn, an increase of 21%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The intensive sectors of poultry, eggs and pigs all recorded increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir said the changes were &#8220;reflective&#8221; of &#8220;particularly volatile&#8221; markets over the last five years,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114759236591948335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}