Written answers
Thursday, 18 May 2006
Department of Agriculture and Food
Organic Farming
5:00 pm
Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 60: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on the figures for 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005 of land certified as organic giving the information as a percent of total land under cultivation and in area size by hectares and acres. [18754/06]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table:
| Year | Hectares | Acres | % of total land under cultivation certified as organic |
| 1990 | 3,800 | 9,389 | 0.08% |
| 1995 | 12,634 | 31,218 | 0.29% |
| 2000 | 27,231 | 67,287 | 0.62% |
| 2005 | 35,266 | 87,142 | 0.81% |
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