The package provided grants to 152 commercial horticultural producers to assist in funding capital investments in specialist new equipment and facilities.
The package provided grants to 152 commercial horticultural producers to assist in funding capital investments in specialist new equipment and facilities. The grant aid covers all areas of the horticultural industry – including field vegetables, mushrooms, protected crops, nursery crops, soft fruits/apples, cut foliage, Christmas trees, bulbs and bee-keeping – and will assist in funding investments of approximately €9.3 million be-tween now and the end of the year.
Pictured left: Minister of State McEntee visits David Kehoe’s Field Vegetable Farm in Tara, Co Meath which is among the recipi-ents of this year’s grant aid under the Scheme of Investment Aid for the De-velopment of the Commercial Horticul-ture. L to R: David Kehoe, Field Vege-table Producer, Minister of State Shane McEntee, Charlie Kehoe
The package provided grants to 152 commercial horticultural producers to assist in funding capital investments in specialist new equipment and facilities. The grant aid covers all areas of the horticultural industry – including field vegetables, mushrooms, protected crops, nursery crops, soft fruits/apples, cut foliage, Christmas trees, bulbs and bee-keeping – and will assist in funding investments of approximately €9.3 million be-tween now and the end of the year.
The Irish horticulture industry contributed an estimated €288 million to the value of agricultural output in 2011 and provides, both directly and indi-rectly, an estimated 5,000 jobs nationally with many further jobs being generated in distribution, processing and marketing.
Source: Hortitrends News Desk
