Rural entrepreneurs encouraged to submit ideas for innovation awards

RURAL entrepreneurs and farmers from Monaghan have been urged to submit their inspiring business ideas for the 2010/11 JFC Innovation Awards, with a prize fund worth €44,000.

This all-island competition is aimed at farmers and rural entrepreneurs with an idea or a business that began trading in the last five years.

JFC managing director, John Concannon, said: “Innovation is needed more than ever. We need to see new businesses emerge that will create employment and generate wealth in rural areas.