Agri-food firms Danone and Tanco have won the two top prizes at the Ireland France Business Awards.

Industry predictions of soaring future consumption of dairy products in Asia and India are not being matched by demand in more easily accessible and lucrative European markets, according to analysts.

REFORM of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will not happen before the first half of 2013 when Ireland takes up the EU Agriculture Presidency, according to Simon Coveney, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.