Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Different Approaches and New Opportunities in Irish Agriculture: Discussion

3:30 pm

Mr. Louis McAuley:

Cultivation introduces oxygen to the carbon and that is how we get our carbon dioxide into the air. If we keep the soil intact and healthy, and full of life, and do not put the plough or cultivator through it and do not get this release, putting carbon down into the soil, on top of the photosynthesis, will keep it there. That is another keeper.