The Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) is now accepting applications under the Horticulture Crisis Fund. The support measure will be provided in the form of a once-off payment to growers who are most affected by the continued high level of input costs.
Eligible crop growers include: Brown mushroom; heated strawberry; field vegetable; field salad crop; apple; vertical farmed greens; and glasshouse high-wire crop.
This is following the recent announcement by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, and Minister of State for land use and biodiversity with special responsibility for horticulture, Pippa Hackett, regarding the distribution of the funds allocated under the EU Agricultural Reserve.
According to DAFM, the support package will help to ensure the short-term security and long-term viability of growers in these sub-sectors.
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