Farmers advised on business start-up

TRANSFORMNG ideas into new businesses was the main theme of the first ever Teagasc Rural Entrepreneurship conference held in Mullingar, Co Westmeath. The aim was to assist and guide people with new business ideas to set up their own enterprise.

Paul McCarthy, Teagasc Rural Business Specialist, urged the 300 people in attendance to be positive and to pursue the opportunities that exist in areas where they have particular strengths.

John Concannon, chief executive of JFC, said a person who succeeds in developing an idea into a business never gives up, is determined and never envisages their ideas or products failing.