Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 31 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. John Dolan:
New technology in terms of the nitrogen and ureas come on the market all the time. They are more environmentally friendly products. There is a product called TerraCAN, which is nitrogen. Instead of using 27% nitrogen, it uses only 21%, because it uses an organic compound in order to be able to take up the lower amount of nitrogen more efficiently. All of these data about reduction in nitrogen and reduction in livestock numbers could be outdated in three or four year's time, if all this technology is applied.