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

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 to examine is the US where the technology originated and where they have had the most consistent production of this type of technology.

To read the full submission from IOFGA on this topic please click on the link below

Consulation on GM

IOFGA have in the past few years submitted several prebudget submissions to the government. The aim of these submissions is to highlight to the government the need to allocate sufficient resources to the organic sector in order to ensure that it can develop to meet the domestic demand for organic products.

Here is our submission for the 2009 budget:

Pre-budget submission 2009 (pdf file)

(You can see our previous submission here….)