Online training video to help meat sector add value to its business

Meat businesses can avail of a free new online training programme to help them add value to their enterprises and services.

The Strengthening Local Meat Supply Chains e-learning programme is the culmination of a two-year project led and co-ordinated by IRD Duhallow, a rural development company covering north-west Cork and parts of east Kerry.

SLMSC project co-ordinator Isobel Fletcher of IRD Duhallow said: “It is important to make the programme as widely available as possible to encourage small meat business owners to think about ways they can improve their business in order to make it more viable and sustainable.”