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Frank O’Mara, Director of Teagasc; Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD; Jim O’Toole, CEO of Bord Bia and Seán Coughlan, Chief Executive of ICBF
A substantial investment has been announced in a national, online, farmer-centric portal that will encourage and support farmers to implement climate action and sustainability improvements and efficiencies on their farms.
AgNav is set to be further developed with €2million in funding, recently announced by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD.
“The sustainability digital platform ‘AgNav’ has been jointly developed by Teagasc, Bord Bia and the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) with support from my Department, ensuring and demonstrating a collaborative whole of Government and industry approach,” the minister said.
“This collaboration leverages the most robust inter-agency data, research and resources to drive climate action and efficiencies on farm.
“The development of AgNav is of strategic national importance as it provides a mechanism for quantification of progress towards Climate Action Plan targets for the agri-sector as well as supporting environmental and economic sustainability.
“AgNav puts the farmer in control of actions on their farm that will deliver on Climate Action. AgNav provides a whole farm sustainability assessment and includes a decision support function (forecaster tool) that allows science-led plans be made for individual farms to reduce emissions and increase sequestration.”
AgNav allows advisors to interact with farmers around mitigation strategies and will facilitate the development of a tailored climate action mitigation plan for each individual farm based on sustainable farming practices. It will also provide Bord Bia quality assured farmers with a digital platform to meet their audit requirements for the Origin Green programme.
“This new funding will greatly accelerate the development of AgNav which utilises the three agencies’ collective knowledge to provide farmers with accurate and verifiable data to support decision making with respect to environmental performance,” said Professor Frank O’Mara of Teagasc
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