Seanad debates
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Food Harvest 2020 Report: Statements
We must be smart in targeting consumers in the international marketplace and ensure we will be there to supply their needs. The Food Harvest 2020 committee, under the chairmanship of the Minister, will ensure ideas, investment and knowledge will allow us to become one of the top producers of good quality food and fish products and that our primary producers, that is, fishermen and farmers, will be the principal ones to benefit. We must preserve the family farm, not encourage factory farms. The fact that the Minister is driving progress through the committee shows that we are on the right road. I congratulate him and the agriculture and fisheries sector on this.
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