Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants per county per year since 2015 for the organic farming scheme; the number of successful applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28219/20]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Under Ireland's current Rural Development Plan (2014 -2020), a budget of €56m was allocated to fund the Organic Farming Schemes opened during this period.This is the largest allocation ever to an Organics support scheme. The amount of land under organic production has seen an increase of nearly 50% to nearly 74,000 hectares.

The Organic Farming Scheme accepted applications in 2015 and 2016 and was re-opened on a targeted basis in 2019.

The details of applicants who commenced in the Organic Farming Scheme is found below.

All valid applications received in the 2015 and 2016 tranches were accepted.