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Mihail Dumitru: Romania has second amplest rural development programme in Europe, after Poland.

Agriculture and Rural Development Minster Mihail Dumitru told an agriculture seminar, on Thursday, that Romania holds the second largest rural development programme in Europe, after Poland, and the farming sector currently continues contributing to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) value.

'Certainly Romania has been going through a difficult period. The positive side resides in the fact that although we have been experiencing a financial crisis, Romania may benefit from EU funds. Romania has a rural development programme over 2007-2013, which is the second biggest in Europe, after Poland's. The funds total almost 13 billion euros. The farming sector continues contributing to the GDP,' Minister Dumitru pointed out.

Likewise, the Romanian official admitted that Romania's agriculture fails reaching the European level and one of the recovery alternatives is to develop variants to make people continue living in the countryside.

'We know that the Romanian agriculture fails meeting the European performance level, but we have to develop alternatives and offer people good living and work conditions and avoid they leave the rural space. We are about to set up the required legal framework to support the Romanian food and farming sector. Last nigh (on Wednesday July 2010 - editor's note), the Government passed an important law package numbering five financial support measures for the agriculture. The first is aimed at backing up the animal breeding sector. Romania's animal breeding sector can supply most of the domestic consumption, and also increase the exports. There is no serious economic reason for Romania should not put out these products. The law package is not complete, other variants are under way. They will be enacted depending on the budget resources we avail of, but also on the EU Commission's opinion,' Agriculture Minster Dumitru said.

According to him, the EU Commission will make its first proposition on the new agriculture policy, by yearend.

'The EU Commission is to make a first proposition on the new common agriculture policy, by the end of the year. Important talks on the new CAP are in progress, and one of the most important is about financing,' Minister Dumitru stressed.

Agriculture Minister and leaders of several Romanian federations and associations of the farming producers are attending the specialty seminar, in Bucharest, on Thursday, to discuss the current situation of the Romanian agriculture.

The event's agenda schedules topics such as the quantum of the funds to be allocated through the National Rural Development Programme (PNDR) - the instrument whereby Romania may access EU money by 2013, for projects on the modernization of the farming exploitations or for villages rehabilitation, the effects of the rise on the agriculture, the farmers' access to banking loans and the role insurances play in the agriculture.

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