| Farmers have accepted a settlement deal in their row over sugar beet
prices, and will resume delivery beet to the country's two sugar factories
right away.
The agreement gives them a E1.50 per tonne price rise for this year's
crop, rising to E2.00 with a 40 cents quality payment per tonne next year.
Five hundred growers voted early this morning at a meeting in Cahir, Co
Tipperary to accept the terms agreed.
These had been hammered out earlier in talks that involved the sugar
company Greencore, the Irish Farmers Association, Tanaiste Mary Harney and
the Minister for Agriculture Joe Walsh.
Production is expected to resume next week at the company's factories in
Carlow and Mallow.
All legal action against the beet growers will also be dropped.
The 24 day row could have been solved earlier, IFA president Tom Parlon
said. |