Donegal farmers are to receive a total of €17.3 million in advance ACRES payments.
The 3,000 local farmers in the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) who haven’t received their advance payments will receive payments totalling €17.3 million over the coming weeks.
Details of the interim payments were announced by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue.
He said “Further to my announcement of last Friday, February 9th of an interim payment for ACRES participants, I can confirm that the rate of this interim payment will be €4,000 for those in ACRES general and €5,000 for those in ACRES Co-operation Project.”
The Donegal Minister continued: “I very much appreciate the importance of this payment to farmers, and I am fully committed to rewarding farmers for their environmental ambition. My intention is to have this interim payment delivered to those farmers affected across ACRES General and Co-operation by the end of this month.”
“The ACRES payments will take into account the interim payments already made to the relevant participants and will issue in June for ACRES Tranche 1 participants.
“In the intervening period, my officials will continue with the payment process as a key priority.”
