asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries the number of (a) piggeries and (b) silage pits in the State.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Piggeries and Silage Pits.
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There are no official statistics of the number of piggeries or silo pits in the State. Rough estimates would suggest that pigs are kept on about 80,000 holdings and that the total number of silos might be in the region of 21,500.