Sentences with phrase «irish dairy sector»

And, in my opinion, the impetus for the deal is simply to avoid a negative, rather than generate a positive... With the looming abolition of milk quotas in 2015, the Irish dairy sector needs to aggressively scale up processing capacity.

Welcoming the investment, Irish minister of state Shane McEntee identified the British market as one that held «considerable growth potential» for the Irish dairy sector, within the context of industry targets under the government - led agri - food initiative Food Harvest 2020.

Despite this global drop in prices, Bord Bia added that the Irish dairy sector «performed strongly» during 2012.

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With over $ 1bn ($ 1.1 bn) being invested on dairy farms and over $ 600m ($ 658m) in processing and market capacity, Bord Bia says that the Irish dairy industry will have the fastest growing dairy sector in the world over the next five years.

Billions of euros and thousands of jobs will flow from the historic deregulation of Europe's dairy sector, a string of Irish ministers promised at the opening this week of a vast new plant to make dried milk for developing markets.

Irish dairy groups Dale Farm and Lakeland have been linked as possible suitors for local peer LacPatrick Dairies, which has announced it is mulling its «strategic options» after recent interest from companies in the sector.