Women farmers will be supported with an on-farm investment scheme through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2023-2027.
Currently known as the Target Agriculture Modernisation Schemes (TAMS), the on-farm investment scheme will deliver two grant assistance levels. One at 40 per cent and the second at 60 per cent.
Female farmers will be given the higher rate of 60 per cent grant aid, which has been pledged by the Government.
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan, chair of the Women in Agriculture Stakeholders Group (WASG) said the financial support will make a difference to a generation of farmers.
“This will make a huge change to the lives of the 70,000 women working on farms across the country who have been effectively voiceless and invisible up to now,” she added.
“The next step will be to iron out details to make sure that both measures are effective and not misused in any way but it is a very positive first step which will make a difference to a generation of women farming in Ireland.”
Previously, less than four per cent of all TAMS payments went to female farmers in the current CAP and just 3,000 women out of 19,000 participants took part in the Knowledge Transfer (KT) scheme.
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