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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
.... This leads to perfectly saleable produce being rejected at both packer and retail levels because of minor blemishes. Growers often say there is an expectation that potatoes now must resemble the appearance of an eating apple. Some facilities are now investing in technology to have a use for this produce which would be otherwise destined for cattle feed. However, from a climate and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
...glasshouse-grown tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers; brown mushrooms; field vegetables and field-grown salad crops; energy-reliant protected crops; heated strawberries; and vertically grown greens and apples. The schemes is designed to ensure the short-term security and thus the long-term viability of these subsectors. The Senator asked why some growers were left out of the scheme. At...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Mr. Dermot Callaghan: Obviously we cannot cover every possibility but in terms of some of the major sectors, if you look at apples, which is a sector we are trying to develop, we are bringing in genotypes from abroad and road testing them in an Irish context first before we release them and suggest they be adopted in the sector. We do see varieties with CRISPR-Cas as disruptive technology...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
...;10 million this year and we are hoping to open the 2024 scheme. We got a budget of €10 million for 2024 and we will open that scheme in the very near future. Regarding the agriculture reserves, the apple sectors are covered in the horticulture crisis fund this year so they will get support because they were deemed at risk.