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Maria Walsh, MEP visited Mountbellew Agricultural College last week to officially launch a brand new Teagasc QQI Level 5 Farm Safety & Assurance module, of which the first round will be delivered specifically to women working in the agri-sector.

Edel Boyd from Carrowmore Lacken, Ballina has been awarded the Mountbellew Agri College Best Farm Business Plan award sponsored by AIB.

‘Making Dairy Farming More Sustainable’ was the theme of this year’s Teagasc National Dairy Conference which took place at the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, recently.

Fianna Fáil TD for Roscommon-Galway, Eugene Murphy, has said the confusion surrounding the fees which are being charged by Teagasc for farmers taking part in the Knowledge Transfer programme must be addressed as a matter of urgency.

Students from each of the agriculture and forestry courses in Mountbellew Agricultural College participated in the recent annual Colleges Challenge Day, held in conjunction with Macra na Feirme and hosted in Mountbellew Agricultural College.

Last month, 19 Irish volunteers participated in the Great Ethiopian Run (GER) in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia on behalf of Vita, an Irish NGO working in East Africa including three Mayo men which raised over €50,000.

Rural businesses are in line to win a share of €40,000 on offer from the 2014 JFC innovation awards for businesses in rural Ireland

A State agency is to host a meeting in Athlone this week to look at promoting job creation in renewable energy in rural Ireland.

NUI Galway has officially launched a new full-time master’s programme in rural sustainability.

Eileen Reidy from Our Lady’s Bower, Athlone, will attend the Euro Science Open Forum 2012 in the Convention Centre Dublin, next Friday July 13. Earlier this year, Eileen participated in Agri Aware’s Green Dragon Secondary Schools Innovation Challenge where her idea of helping seeds to grow in drought conditions using hydrogel polymers (gel in which water is the main dispersion medium) won her the top prize of a €7,000 development fund. Along with this prize fund, Eileen was also awarded the opportunity to showcase her idea at this year’s Euro Science Open Forum, a week-long event that will be attended by over 6,000 scientists, business leaders, and government officials from across Europe.