Small-holder Irish potato farmers will in “foreseeable future” get State support to engage in contract farming for multinational restaurant chains in a plan aimed at fetching better prices and cutting costly post-harvest losses.
The developments of the first week of January that saw Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurants in Kenya run out of pre-sliced potato imports from Egypt have laid bare the plight of small-scale farmers in getting deals from large corporates, especially multinationals.
