Just 13 per cent of Irish farms were in the sole ownership of a woman and only 8 per cent of €1.2 billion in single farm payments went to women farmers last year. Yet in the Galicia region of Spain, which has similar farming practices to Ireland, 58 per cent of farmers are women and women receive 44 per cent of total single farm payments

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