Ireland - Smith launches two new €29 million welfare schemes for pigs farmers and poultry producers

The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith TD, announced details of two new on-farm investment schemes designed to improve the standards of animal welfare in sow housing and for poultry production.

The schemes, which are worth a maximum €29 million, are part of a €113 million targeted scheme for on-farm investment to support a number of specific categories of farmers and focused on supporting productive investment and are part of the revised Rural Development Plan 2007-2013.

http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/press/pressreleases/2010/june/title,44143,en.html

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Ireland - Smith launches two new €29 million welfare schemes for pigs farmers and poultry producers

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