Artisan producers get new advisers
Funding of over €350,000 in 2008 and 2009 has been provided by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to Teagasc to employ the advisers, who have been named as Sara McSweeney and Carol Griffin.
Based at Teagasc centres at Moorepark, Co Cork and Ashtown, Co Dublin, they will liaise with food businesses to identify their food technical and development needs, and will ensure that best knowledge, skills and technology are made available through training, advice and technical support.
Announcing the appointment, Minister Eamonn Ó Cuív said: “A number of Government departments and agencies are involved in the development of food enterprise and, in this case, we have worked together in a joined-up way to bring about these appointments for the benefit of rural communities.” Trevor Sargent, Minister of State for Food and Horticulture, welcomed the appointments. “The artisan food business has great potential for further development,” he said.
