Ireland's ageing farm workers and a scarcity of women

New figures from Eurostat highlight just how old the Irish agricultural workforce is and how few women work in farming.

Caitríona Morrissey

15 November 2017

Geraldine Power photographed on her farm in Kill, Co Waterford. \ Mary Browne

Ireland has the second oldest agricultural workforce in Europe and the fewest women working in agriculture, new figures from Eurostat reveal.

Almost 22% of the people working in agriculture in this country are aged 65 or older, according to the European Commission’s statistics hub.

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