The Aeron Valley cheese plant closed in March

The group was founded in Felinfach, near Lampeter, after 44 workers were made redundant from the Aeron Valley cheese factory in March.

Ten months earlier 115 jobs went when the Dairygold packaging plant shut.

The taskforce aims to create jobs in an area which has had links with the dairy industry for 56 years.

Gweithgor Dyffryn Aeron (Aeron Valley Taskforce) includes councillors from Ceredigion Council, farming unions, milk producers and companies.

It was formed after the village of Felinfach suffered major job losses at two cheese factories in less than a year.

We're going into the meeting with a positive agenda Taskforce member Owen Llywelyn

After Mr Jones agreed to chair the taskforce in September, its chairman Huw McConochie said: "We hope that the minister will support this work and that we will see dairy produce being processed in the Aeron Valley in the near future.

"This area has had enough of seeing companies taking government grants to set up here, and then disappearing after a few years."

Taskforce member and local county councillor Owen Llywelyn said the area needed the minister's support.

He said the members of the taskforce had ideas about how to generate new jobs which had been reinforced by market research.

"We're going into the meeting with a positive agenda. We've carried out market research and in-depth analysis of the dairy sector," he said.

Ceredigion AM and Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones will also attend the meeting in Felinfach on Thursday.