European farm ministers will meet in Brussels to begin what are expected to be tough talks on reform of the EU sugar sector.
The European Commission wants to cut its guaranteed price for sugar by 39% following a ruling by the World Trade Organisation that its price supports are illegal.
The IFA warns that the reforms would have a disastrous effect on Irish growers.
On Sunday, about 3,000 demonstrators protested over EU reforms of the sugar industry, at an IFA-organised protest in Mallow, Co Cork.
President of the IFA, John Dillon, said that the suggested cuts, if implemented, would wipe out the livelihoods of beet growers in Ireland.
The EU is proposing a 50% cut in the price of sugar beet to €25 a tonne. Farmers would be compensated for 60% of the price reduction.
Mallow is the only surviving sugar factory in the country. The factory in Carlow closed earlier this year and there are still concerns about the future of the plant in Mallow because of the reforms.
African, Caribbean and Pacific countries which traditionally export sugar to the EU will benefit from an assistance programme worth €40 million under these proposals.
