Representatives from a Turkish livestock importing company will be in Ireland this week to look at Irish cattle and meet with exporters.

Whereas the last Turkish delegation to visit here was from the state-owned milk and meat board, these executives are from a privately owned firm. They are visiting in anticipation of Turkey’s agriculture ministry giving the private sector the go-ahead to import.

Last month the Turkish finance ministry lowered tariffs on feeder cattle imports by private sector firms.

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