Episode 6 Luí na Talún

'The right kind of insurance for your farm. No big deal, just...'

MURMUR OF CONVERSATIONS

Given the... I suppose, the challenging economic times that we're in,

agri-food has continued to grow -

3.7 billion turnover in 2010.

That's up 8% from the year before.

So throughout all this difficult time,

agri-food continues to grow, so it's vitally important to economic recovery.

I'm putting it centre stage at the Executive in the Assembly

to make sure everybody realises that this is the sector that can lead us out of economic recession.

'That's just the nature of our economy, locally - it's made up of the small businesses, so...

'And you can see by all the exhibitors that are here today,'

it's all small companies that are here making their mark,

and we have to do all that we can in government to support them

to achieve, I suppose, and to continue to grow.

WIND HOWLS

Northern Ireland's made up of small companies, employing three or four people, and our ethos here...

We're a local employer and I think people here want to see, you know...

our workers want to see our business work and, you know,

we've a fantastic product that's been winning awards on the world stage

and that, coupled with the sales to different countries, has helped us to increase our business.

I mean, looking at the taxation on excise duty,

erm...the amount of money that goes into the revenue for fuel -

we're quite a large user of electricity and user of fuels, and that hurts.

I think there should be a scale to allow smaller businesses to decrease fuel duty possibly,

but it's...implementation of rates and other things are quite worrying for the businesses.

We've invested to allow ourselves to increase the size of our production capacities.

We have been fortunate through this recession

to get into new markets in overseas countries, in France and in Italy,

and that has helped us, but it is...

Times in all businesses are tight and you have to watch all your spend.

BIRDSONG

-A lovely day for outdoor cooking(!)

-There's nothing we can do about it.

-It smells fantastic. What is it?

-It's a pumpkin soup.

So we're going to add your pumpkins to the soup.

-They're small, but they're tasty.

-Small but nice!

-Small but nice!

-You're adding my five and Maire's one...

-Yes.

-..to this broth?

OK, so everybody know where we stand on this - my five and Maire's one.

And there's the peas we planted a while ago.

What's going to become of them now?

Well, the pea shoots have been great.

We've been picking away at them

and eating them and they're treated like a salad leaf almost.

It gives you that fresh taste of pea.

I'm taking all the credit for something I should be getting absolutely none for. Here you are.

Did he say that he'd made it as well?

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