800 country businesses started up

NEARLY eight hundred businesses have been started up in rural areas of Londonderry over the last three years.
By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Jan 2011, 15:01 BST

Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michelle Gildernew revealed 755 rural businesses were set up here between 2007 and 2008.

She was asked by way of an Assembly Question to outline how many rural enterprises were started up in each constituency in each of the last three years.

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She revealed that the number of enterprise start-ups in the countryside here has dipped from 280 in 2007, to 260 in 2008, to 215 in 2009.

She said she had received the details from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETINI).

She added: "By way of further information, my Department has funded numerous farm diversification and business creation projects specific to rural areas under the Rural Development Programme 2007-13.

"Funding was allocated to some 361 businesses under measures 3.1 and 3.2 of Programme, which cover farm diversification and business creation and development respectively."

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