TheChallengesFacingRuralCommunity

David Meredith, Teagasc
Address to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht
Affairs, November 23rd 2016

Teagasc is the national body providing integrated research, advisory and training services to the agriculture and food industry and rural communities. Teagasc has a long history of undertaking rural policy research that has focused on both the farm and the broader rural economy. This perspective is informed by the strengthening of the links between farm households and the off-farm economy and the importance of these links in sustaining farm households:

In this Article, the author wants to focus the ideas of involving National Body to shaping the link between Farm Households and Off-Farm Households, to maintain the Rural economy.
Further explains about the regional viability of greater number of farm enterprises are based on locational perspective (Diary and Tillage Farm).

Another issue is that, most of the people involving in off-farm industries are moving out of rural areas showing Geographical Population Decline in the rural areas.

To overcome with these such issues, government policies like Alteration of industrial structure of employment and shift the location of employment opportunities, is done by massification of 3rdlevel of education or growth in number of Dual Income.

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