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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Nitrates regulations putting jobs at risk
IFA PRESIDENT John Bryan has described the current review of the nitrates regulations as a key test of the Government’s commitment to safeguard jobs and remove the impractical restrictions which impose unnecessary costs on farming and curtail the sector’s capacity to expand.
Speaking at a lobby session with TDs and Senators in Dublin Mr Bryan said: “The agriculture sector has significant potential to expand. However, bureaucratic regulations which dictate how you farm based on the time of the year rather than grass growing and soil conditions are crazy.
The restrictive calendar farming regime must be replaced with a system which allows farmers to spread based on ground suitability and best advice from Met Éireann and Teagasc.
These state agencies can tell us how the climate will change in 50 or 100 years, it is about time they also used their science to tell us how we can spread slurry in early January also.”
Mr Bryan said: “The Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith and the Minister for the Environment John Gormley must use this review to safeguard the thousands of jobs in the pig and poultry sectors which will be decimated if they do not introduce workable solutions. IFA has met with the Departments of Agriculture and Environment on a number of occasions and proposed alternatives, however no recommendations put forward by either IFA or Teagasc have been accepted to date.”
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