A Clare farming representative is welcoming proposals aimed at tackling falling food prices.
European Ministers are meeting in Brussels next week to discuss a number of proposals as part of a major investment plan including an advance on area payments, the provision of aid-to-private-storage an increase to the intervention price.
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Thousand of farmers in the dairy, grain, pig and other sectors protested outside the EU offices in Dublin yesterday to voice their anger at falling incomes.
Clare IFA Chairman Andrew Dundass says an increase in the intervention price would increase protection for farm incomes but it is not a long-tern solution.
