Demand doubles for Teagasc agriculture courses

Demand for agriculture courses run by Teagasc has doubled in the past six years and the organisation has had to redeploy staff from other areas to meet requests.

Its head of education Tony Pettit said the agriculture and food development authority had seen a significant and sustained increase in demand for its courses. In 2006, there were just over 700 first-year college enrolments for Teagasc’s further-education and higher-education courses.