The market for lavender in Ireland is unknown. There is no Irish market or market infrastructure requiring producers to develop their own products and outlets. It is possible to develop markets for specific products, which can only be carried out by small scale testing and market research.

In the U.K the crop is grown successfully in Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent for perfumery. There is a successful lavender farm that has been set-up in the UK on the Wirral - called ‘phytobotanica’ www.phytobotanica.com . They started the enterprise as an alternative crop as farmers moved away from the potato production in this area. The success of this enterprise is interesting given that the soil is quite loamy.

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