{"id":1255174,"date":"2024-03-20T21:55:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T21:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/?p=1255174"},"modified":"2024-03-20T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T21:56:10","slug":"nitrates-related-inspections-on-farms-to-increase-to-4500-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/farming-news\/nitrates-related-inspections-on-farms-to-increase-to-4500-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitrates\u00a0related\u00a0inspections on farms to increase to 4,500 next year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Local authorities are set to carry out nitrates related inspections on at least 3,300 farms this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But this will increase to 4,500 <\/strong>farms in 2025, Fintan Towey, assistant secretary of the water division, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, told the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine tonight (Wednesday, March 20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Towey also highlighted to the committee that Local Authority inspection reports show that in 2022 “approximately 30% of farms inspected were noncompliant” with the Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters Regulations (GAP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Agriculture is the most significant pressure on waters posing a risk to over 1,000 waterbodies,” he also stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n