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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)
Victor Boyhan: ...There has been much debate about the horticultural sector. The most significant subsection of the horticultural sector is the mushroom sector. We have had the knock-on effects from the end of peat harvesting and challenges at cross-Border level. We know that many people working in the mushroom sector travel across the Border, predominantly in Monaghan and other such areas. These are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)
...of which is comprised of mushroom exports. They are dependent on the British market for that. As I mentioned in my statement, energy and labour are constraints on that. The Senator also mentioned peat. Peat is an ideal growing medium for mushrooms. The volume of peat that is used by the mushroom sector has been decreasing. They are trying to absolutely minimise that and are looking...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)
Martin Browne: ...been a decrease by 23%. Is that because the sector is producing less or is there less demand for the product.? If it is, what is Bord Bia doing to strengthen the demand, giving that horticultural peat is a major issue throughout Europe? There is a risk, which has been brought up here on several occasions, that we may lose some of our producers here to Europe. It would be a massive loss...