While UK farm income rose 15% overall last year.

While UK farm income rose 15% overall last year, farmers in Northern Ireland were hit with a 33% very little in revenue, according to revised figures published this week through the UK rural affairs and agriculture departments.

Estimated total farming income in the UK is now offer at [pounds sterling]2.36 billion for 2002 compared with [pound sterling]2.07bn in 2001 The initial estimate published last November predicted an 11 % increase.

The department for environment, commons and rural affairs (Defra) said this was the other successive annual increase in income. provisions and farming minister Lord