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Good Practices National Rural Development Network Issue 5 YEAR II, NOVEMBER 2014 good practices national rural development network issue 5 YEAR II, NOVEMBER 2014 the roots of europe Ministerul Agriculturii și Dezvoltării Rurale REGIONAL OFFICES Support Unit for the National Rural Development Network BRĂILA Bdul Independenţei, nr. 282, et. 1, PO Box 810124, [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS Tel.: 0339 732 009, Fax: 0339 732 016 CRAIOVA FOREWORD 2 Str. Libertăţii, nr. 19, Facultatea de Agricultură și Horticultură, cam. L-311, et. 2, PO Box 200421, [email protected], Tel.: 0251 460 377, Fax: 0251 423 651 PROJECTS FROM ROMANIA 6 ZALĂU CHAPTER 1. LOCAL ACTION GROUPS 8 Str. Kossuth Lajos, nr. 49, PO Box 450010, [email protected] Tel.: 0360 404 056, Fax: 0360 404 158 Projects are fructified in the Romanian Plain 8 TÂRGU MUREŞ Olt draws programs worth millions of Euro 12 Str. Mihai Eminescu, nr. 60, PO Box 540331, [email protected] Tel.: 0365 430 349, Fax: 0365 430 351 CHAPTER 2. FARMS 16 IAŞI An ultramodern greenhouse 16 Zona de Agrement Ciric - Complexul de Agrement Ciric, PO Box 700064, [email protected] Tel.: 0332 881 281, Fax: 0332 881 282 Step by step development 19 TIMIŞOARA CHAPTER 3. PROCESSING 24 Bdul Take Ionescu, nr. 53, et. 2, biroul nr. 26, PO Box 300074, [email protected] Tel.: 0356 460 982, Fax: 0356 460 983 Bread to everyone’s taste 24 TÂRGOVIŞTE The mill in Giarmata deserves its fame 27 Str. Vărzaru Armaşu, nr. 7A, PO Box 130169, [email protected] CHAPTER 4. NON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES 30 Tel.: 0345 100 025, Fax: 0345 100 605 Investments in concrete, profit from concrete 30 BUCUREŞTI Str. Nicolae Filipescu, nr. 39-41, et. 6, Sector 2, PO Box 020961, [email protected] Rest and comfort in the piedmont of Argeș River 33 Tel.: 031 690 0214, Fax: 031 690 0215 PROJECTS FROM EUROPE 38 POLAND AND SCOTLAND – The Polish and the Scottish invite customers to taste their food 40 The text of this publication is only for information purposes and shall entail no legal liability. MALTA – The certified Maltese environmentalism 43 Additional information on MARD and NSU may be accessed on the Internet at: www.madr.ro, www.rndr.ro ITALY – Supply chain for high quality potatoes 46 USR, Publication Department ISSN 2285-4185 GREECE – Greek pottery shakes hands with nanotechnology 49 ISSN-L 2285-4185 © RNDR, 2014 The texts of this publication may be reproduced only subject to the specification of the source. Printed in Romania. Copyright photographs: the beneficiaries of the projects described in this publication and shutterstock.com Copyright cover photographs: shutterstock.com 1 FOREWORD Classification criteria for good practices In regard to the thematic agriculture, forestry, forestry The second classification good practices. Growing the viability structuring of good practices, the holdings, food industry and criterion for good practices is the and the competitiveness of the National Program for Rural non-agricultural activities. economic-financial aspect. From this activities in rural areas is only Development (PNDR) is the reference point of view, two main categories of possible by developing a knowledge document, due to the action priorities At the same time, there are good projects/models of good practices are base supported by a scientific and the measurements it sets. This practices in promoting the rural identified and they can be developed research adapted to the local program was elaborated in order to areas through sustainable tourism. according to PNDR: those falling on demands or to the new contexts. achieve three key objectives in the the minimis schemes and those for Know-how is needed in the area of field of agriculture and rural An example in this field would be which co-financing support is modernizing the farm, managing development: facilitating the the good practices in the granted amounting up to 200 000 forests or adapting them to climate transformation and refurbishment of agri-tourism field which aims to Euro. changes. the dual structure of agriculture and combine specific autochthonous forestry, maintaining and improving elements with high standards in the The third criterion is the The fifth criterion lies in the the quality of the environment in services offered, by the safety and organizational/administrative-terri- transferability particularities of the rural areas of Romania, as well as comfort provided to tourists. torial level to which each project projects, aiming also for their managing and facilitating the applies: national, regional, local, replication possibilities, depending transition of the work force from There are also examples of good organizational. For example, a on contextual similarities. agriculture to other sectors. practices in the growth and national strategy may be considered diversification of rural economy, a good practice model if it is To conclude, the classification of The first classification referring to the development of small correlated and integrated into the good practices is built in relation to criterion for good practices is and middle enterprises, diversifying regional strategies, based on the real the diversification of the definitions defined by the main incidence fields services and production, preserving resources and potential in those taking into account the functions and by their convergence with the biodiversity and its environment or in areas and if it is adapted to the performed, the process developed PNDR measurements. Thus, there the field of rural development, common needs observed locally. and the possibility of applying those are good practices in the field of implemented for improving the local good practices in other contexts, the rural economy classified depending governance and for valuing the The fourth criterion consists of innovative nature and the on the main interest fields: resources of the soil and of the subsoil. the innovation element present in the transferability level. 2 3 4 5 PROJECTS FROM ROMANIA LEGEND: The areas from which the examples of good practices have been selected are presented in the following pages 6 7 CHAPTER 1. LOCAL ACTION GROUPS Projects are fructified in the Romanian Plain The Local Action Group (LAG) Călușari) and for recreation Găvanu-Burdea is a public-private (especially for fishing). These partnership according to the opportunities are amplified by the program Liaison Entre Actions de demographic structure of the Développement de l’Économie population and by the type of Rurale (LEADER, connections specific occupations and the between actions destined to the traditional customs of the rural economic development), Axis inhabitants. 4, PNDR. The partnership was initiated by the Association of the Still, the area faces problems with Communes on Cotmenei Valley, the active population decrease, the Bârla commune, Argeș County, with small dimensions of agricultural 34 partners from the start. Since the exploitations compared to the validation of the local development efficiency standards, the insufficient plan and until November 2014, the exploitation of the touristic and partnership became balanced and cultural potential, the weak representative for the area, therefore development of small farms and of also aimed to grow the tourism through Measure 121, which aim to gathering 47 associates. the production, processing and potential of the commune, by acquire machinery and equipment. marketing associative farms. In promoting the 12 historical Moreover, through Measure 123 Găvanu-Burdea land is located in order to counteract all these monuments, the local customs and seven projects were accessed having the area of the two plains of Argeș problems, 32 projects were accessed traditions and the natural resources the highest value in the entire LAG: County, the Tall Plain of Pitești and in the LAG, with a total value of 1 (natural sites, Vlășcuța Lake). The 732 103 Euro. Găvanu-Burdea Plain, whereas most 963 376 Euro. The territorial-ad- benefits brought thus to the of the localities forming a part of the ministrative units in the community come from the In order to highlight the good group are in the latter plain. The composition of Găvanu-Burdea LAG development of tourism, by practice generated by the plans land is in the south side of the implemented or are under the increasing the numbers of the aiming to grow the added value of county and it includes 13 localities, implementation of 14 projects, visitors and the duration of their agricultural and forestry products, ten in Argeș County and three in Olt whereas 13 of them are financed stay, but especially by the we selected the project having as County. The area lies on 99 744 ha, through Measure 322 and one of multiplicative effect of this activity: beneficiary SC Alex Construct SRL, with a plane landscape, with them is financed through Measure the general evolution engaged in the elaborated for building and meadows and groves and with an 313 – “Establishing tourism other branches of economy and in equipping the milk processing area considerably covered by water: promotion and information center in the social aspect, the wellness of the center in Săpata commune. This lakes, creeks and rivers. The Stolnici commune”. With an commune, growing the living project was necessary for many population in the area amounts to investment exceeding 99 341 Euro, standard of the inhabitants and reasons: the insufficient nationally 49 333 inhabitants, where the the objective of the project is to improving the image of the area authorized production capacity, the average population density is rehabilitate and transform the nationwide
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