The spotlight on the Irish Mushroom sector continued over a full week of media reports at the end of October.
Speaking to the Irish Farmers Journal in Dublin last Friday, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan acknowledged that the mushroom industry needed help, but argued that this should come from Irish exchequer funds under EU state aid rules. It wasn't many years ago that Mr Hogan was addressing the All Ireland Mushroom Industry conference in Monaghan.
Meanwhile,IFA mushroom committee chair Gerry Reilly argued that :“The European Commission must provide exceptional support for the mushroom sector, for which an external political event has had an immediate and negative economic impact.”
