Local organic food production
I believe we need to establish a new brand to do for Irish organic production what Kerrygold has done for the global marketing of conventionally produced Irish agriculture products.
- I will promote intensive research on which crops might be most profitably grown in which areas and in what types of soils; And once such research is done, I will try to ensure the products of this research are made available to farmers in the field.
- I will work on determining the levels and the kinds of supports necessary for the widespread production, processing and sale of indigenously produced organic food in Ireland and abroad.
- I think supermarkets should reserve certain amounts of shelf-space for locally produced organic and non-organic produce.
- I will push for the strongest possible evidence-based rules in the EU governing the release of GMOs into the environment.
- I will promote studies and relevant research aimed at promoting informed debate on GMO production. The aim of such debate will be to establish if it would be in Ireland's economic best interests to become one of the few GMO production-free areas in the world over the coming decades.
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