Errors in Acres mapping has resulted in some farmers losing out on large sums of money.
That’s according to Mayo Sinn Féin Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh.
Deputy Conway-Walsh was speaking after what she called “deep dissatisfaction” with an answer provided by the Minister for Agriculture, when asked about Acres Mapping.
Acres is a government scheme which supports farmers in tackling bio-diversity decline, and addressing climate change through new farm practices.
Farmers receive funds from the scheme to carry out these sustainable practices, depending if their land is included in a zone which is Acres approved.
Deputy Conway-Walsh is now saying there has been incorrect mapping of active turbary and turf-cutting areas on commonage lands under the scheme, leaving farmers with land that does not qualify for the scheme, and as a result leaving them without an entitlement to funding.
She has been speaking to Midwest Radio’s Rowan Kelly about farmers she knows, who are missing out on thousands of euro because their land was not earmarked under the scheme…
