Over 10,000 local farmers to receive advance income support payments

Over 10,000 farmers locally are to benefit from advance payments under two income supports.

Earlier this week, the Minister for Agriculture, Martin Heydon confirmed the details.

Just over 38 million euro is to be allocated locally under the B-I-S-S and C-R-I-S-S schemes

The Department of Agriculture say, this, combined with recent ANC payments, shows more than €694 million has been issued in the past month.