Dairy Council secures over €3m of EU funding

THE Dairy Council for Northern Ireland has secured over €3 million of European funding towards work over the next three years. By: Gareth McKeown Source: Irish News Link: http://www.irishnews.com/business/2017/10/28/news/dairy-council-secures-over-3m-of-eu-funding-1173405/
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The European funding will allow the body to undertake export support and sustainability programmes worth €3.4 million both at home and abroad and is the only application from the UK to gain EU approval.
Funding for two of the programmes will be to support the promotion of dairy product exports to countries in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, while funding for the third programme is for a joint programme that will run through the European Milk Forum to promote the dairy industry’s sustainability.
The export programmes will build on the work done to date with inward missions allowing dairy companies to meet buyers in their own countries, the programme will also facilitate participation by dairy companies in Gulfood and SIAL China, two of the main international trade fairs in these areas,
The sustainability programme, which is a joint programme involving Northern Ireland, the Republic, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark, will have a number of elements including the production of an annual Fact Book, annual research to monitor public attitudes, an annual symposium, farm visits and social media engagement to demonstrate how farmers manage and look after the environment.
Chief executive of the Dairy Council for Northern Ireland, Dr Mike Johnston said he was looking forward to building on the existing good work.
“We have had great success to date with the export programme that has run over the last three years. Indeed, we have been able to demonstrate export sales of Northern Ireland dairy products of almost £7 million as a direct result of the programme. We are delighted, therefore to be in a position to continue with this work. With projections suggesting that global demand for dairy products will continue to grow this funding will help to develop the work we have already undertaken and allow us to reach out further to developing markets in Southeast Asia.»
“Just as the current export programme was the first across all agri-food sectors in UK to get funding, these two export programmes were the only UK applications to be approved, so that is very gratifying for our producers and processors as it is indicative of European confidence in our success to date,” Dr Johnston added.
 

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