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Northern Ireland Minister Michelle O’Neill has welcomed the
issue of the Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse Gas Stakeholder
Group’s Reduction Strategy and Action Plan.
The Strategy and Action Plan - 'Efficient Farming Cuts
Greenhouse Gases' - has been developed in partnership
with a number of agriculture, food and forestry stakeholders
including DARD.
The strategy focuses on measures that have the potential
to reduce costs whilst lowering greenhouse gas emissions per
unit of food produced and the action plan sets out the practical
measures farmers can adopt. It will provide a framework that
will enable the sector to grasp the challenge of meeting market
needs for food whilst minimising the environmental impacts.
The Minister said - “I recognise that the land-based sector
has a key role to play in the reduction of greenhouse gases
and that caring for the environment is - and will remain -
part and parcel of production.
“This strategy and action plan will play a key role alongside
other sectoral approaches in the move to a lower carbon economy
where resources will be constrained by many factors outside
our control.”
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