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"en.20050606.17.1-144"2
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Mr President, in rural Ireland, family farming is the basis of community life. Through successive anti-farming policies, we are seeing a dismantling of Irish family farming and, as a result, of our rural communities. Everyone wants rural development, but in the context of beleaguered Irish farming, the only rural development I welcome is one that supports family farming, while enriching rural communities with complementary social, educational, transport and employment projects and infrastructure. But, looking at this rural development plan, which seeks to promote the complementary activities, while reducing and taking money from the primary activity – family farming – I can only say the plan is crazy, and in the Irish context, will destroy the very rural communities it purports to enrich.
Instead, let us return to a bit of sanity, where we understand the value of farming, where farmers farm and are rewarded for their labours by a fair price for their produce. Farming is one of the oldest, most basic and most essential activities. In Ireland we seem to think that all the so-called ‘better jobs’ are the future and unwisely we starve out family farming. We are mad. We need both. Let us have the high-tech jobs, let us even bring the software development company to the rural area, but let us have cows, sugar beet, and furrows of maize and orchards of apples in the fields around it. Then we will have a future."@en1
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