Republican News · Thursday 29 August 2002

Hearty supports farmers' protest

Sinn Féin councillor Terry Hearty accompanied members of the South Armagh Farmers Action Group to a protest at Stormont on Friday 23 August.

"Positive action needs to be implemented by the Department to address the plight of farmers in the North," he said. "South Armagh in particular was severely hit by the outbreak of Foot & Mouth disease. The farming industry is now dominated by huge cartels which control prices and are more interested in profit than improving and sustaining the general lifestyle of the average farmer.

"In order to avert this crisis in farming we need urgently to implement incentives to demonstrate to young people especially that there is a future within the industry."