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Kerry farmers receive over €106 million in payments

Jan 16, 2021 18:11 By radiokerrynews
Kerry farmers receive over €106 million in payments
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Kerry farmers received over €106 million in payments in the last quarter of 2020. Almost €1.7 billion has been paid directly to farmers under

Kerry farmers received over €106 million in payments in the last quarter of 2020.

Almost €1.7 billion has been paid directly to farmers under a range of schemes operated by the Department of Agriculture and co-funded by the European Union.

These include the Basic Payment Scheme, environmental scheme GLAS, the Sheep Welfare Scheme, Beef Data Genomics Programme and the Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme.

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Payments were also made through the Hen Harrier and Pearl Mussel projects totalling almost €2 million.

Cork farmers received the highest amount of payments at over €198 million.

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