Monthly Archives: April 2010

2020 Submission

By editor | Published: 23 April 2010

The Department of Agriculture Food and Fisheries called for stakeholders in the sector to submit their views on agriculture ost 2o13 and towards 2020. To read the full submission from IOFGA please click on the link below. Submission 2020 Strategy

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Socio-economic Implications of GM Cultivation in Ireland

By editor | Published: 23 April 2010

In order to make an informed analysis on the impacts of GMO’ s it is important to examine the overall impact that the cultivation of GMO’s has had in countries where they have been growing them continually. It is very difficult to obtain data for countries south of the equator so the most obvious country [...]

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Organic Milk, is it really better for you?

By editor | Published: 22 April 2010

That was the key question at the recent launch of the research partnership between the Irish Organic Milk Producers and Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre Research (ABC) in the Limerick Institute of Technology. The Irish Organic Milk Producers Ltd consists of 14 certified organic dairy farmers who have been involved in the organic sector for almost [...]

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