EFS applicants can avail of support at DAERA Direct offices

DAERA Minister Edwin Poots MLA has announced that digital assistance support will be available in the DAERA Direct offices on a strict appointment only basis to assist with applications to Tranche 4 of the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS), which will open for applications from 17 August – 11 September 2020.




Publication of Weekly Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Deliveries, Northern Ireland: W/E 6 March to W/E 31 July 2020

The Health and Social Care (HSC) Northern Ireland Business Services Organisation (BSO) has today published new experimental statistics on PPE items which have been issued to HSC in Northern Ireland.




Poots meets with farmers and stakeholders on the north coast

Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots MLA spent the day on the north coast meeting farmers and stakeholders to discuss a number of current issues.




The farm’s most valuable asset is you and your family – Poots

Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots MLA has urged Northern Ireland’s farmers and farm families to look after their physical health and mental wellbeing at the launch of a new campaign aimed at protecting the most valuable asset of the agricultural industry – its people.




Minister Poots: 'Grant schemes will allow businesses to stay at the top of the tree'

Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots MLA has said access to three separate grant schemes totalling £2.7 million will allow rural businesses to innovate and expand.