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Romanian Minister announces new EU and national funds for farmers

Nieuwsbericht | 23-08-2023 | 20:35

The Romanian Minister of Agriculture, Florin Barbu, has announced which dates will be respected for new allocations for Romanian farmers and livestock breeders. Calendar of state aid schemes and European funds for the next period.

In a recent interview, the head of agriculture described what the timetable for the next period will be for European funds and state aid.

Programmes for food processing and farm energy independence of to be launched in September

Florin Barbu said that by 30 September 2023 several programmes for farmers and entrepreneurs  will be launched, both for processing agricultural products and for the energy independence on farms.

"By 30 September we will launch INVESTALIM in Romania, a state aid scheme aimed at food processing. We also have energy independence on farms, basically there is money with 100% intensity (no-cofinancing) for the independence of farms in the energy system, to purchase photovoltaic panels", announced Florin Barbu, during the AgroStrategia show, a TVR 1 and Agrointeligența production.

Interventions to be launched in September

The Minister of Agriculture also announced that several interventions will be launched in September under the National Strategic Programme (NSP), for which the Guidelines for Applicants have been launched for public debate.

"(...) We have the livestock part (DR 20 - Investments in the livestock sector), Setting up of young farmers (DR 30 - Support for setting up of young farmers), irrigation systems (DR 25 - Modernisation of irrigation infrastructure and DR 26 - Establishment of irrigation systems). Regarding irrigation, I went to Dâmbovița county last week where work has already started on an irrigation system infrastructure and I have assurances from the builder that it will be completed at least 1 to 1.5 years ahead. In addition to the irrigation part of the main infrastructure, through which the farmers' organisations (water users’ associations) can access 400 million euros, we have put in place a 100 million euro local development component so that, by building the Siret Bărăgan section of the canal, farmers will have the money to access the inner infrastructure through the approvals that the National Land Improvement Agency will issue, so that the canal we want to build will also be efficient and will bring water directly to the plants where it is needed. Practically, at the end of September all these investments will be launched, these being major investments", Florin Barbu assured