Good Practices National Rural Development Network Issue 11 Year II, February 2015 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 4 ZALĂU CHAPTER 1. LOCAL ACTION GROUPS 6 Str. Kossuth Lajos, nr. 49, PO Box 450010, [email protected] Tel.: 0360 404 056, Fax: 0360 404 158 Ecoleg Olt Inferior LAG. The rural Oltenia with projects which are worth 2.4 million Euro 6 TÂRGU MUREŞ Muscelean and European LAG. Diversity in Argeș projects 10 Str. Mihai Eminescu, nr. 60, PO Box 540331, [email protected] Tel.: 0365 430 349, Fax: 0365 430 351 CHAPTER 2. FARMS 14 IAŞI Bee culture becomes a more and more often used practice 14 Zona de Agrement Ciric - Complexul de Agrement Ciric, PO Box 700064, [email protected] Tel.: 0332 881 281, Fax: 0332 881 282 High performance machinery for a farm in Iași 17 TIMIŞOARA The land in Cuza Vodă is worked with high performance machinery 20 Bdul Take Ionescu, nr. 53, et. 2, biroul nr. 26, PO Box 300074, [email protected] Tel.: 0356 460 982, Fax: 0356 460 983 CHAPTER 3. PROCESSING 22 TÂRGOVIŞTE Concerned with the quality and taste of the products they lay on our table 22 Str. Vărzaru Armaşu, nr. 7A, PO Box 130169, [email protected] The Spanish model of dairy products, adapted to Galați 24 Tel.: 0345 100 025, Fax: 0345 100 605 Modernity and taste in the bakery field 27 BUCUREŞTI Str. Nicolae Filipescu, nr. 39-41, et. 6, Sector 2, PO Box 020961, [email protected] CHAPTER 4. NON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES 30 Tel.: 031 690 0214, Fax: 031 690 0215 Dental services, in a commune located in Dâmboviţa County 30 Tourism in Bozovici area, the land with the most beautiful waterfall in the world 33 The text of this publication is only for information purposes and shall entail no legal liability. From using the chisel to processing stone with CNC machines 36 Additional information on MARD and NSU may be accessed on the Internet at: www.madr.ro, www.rndr.ro. PROJECTS FROM EUROPE 38 NSU, Publication Department CZECH REPUBLIC. Collective interest for tourism development 40 ISSN 2286-1742 ISSN-L 2286-1742 FRANCE. Valorising local raw materials 43 © NRDN, 2015 The texts of this publication may be reproduced only subject to the specification of the source. SWEDEN. Brown bean chips - a Swedish recipe for growing the profits 46 Printed in Romania. ITALY. A winery securing its own energy needs with photovoltaic panels 49 Copyright photographs: the beneficiaries of the projects described in this publication and shutterstock.com Copyright cover photographs: shutterstock.com 1 FOREWORD Growing competitiveness in the rural Romanian area Agriculture and the rural policy focusing on the development of In this edition of the magazine, handcrafts, promoting local environment continue to be rural areas by ensuring the viability we chose to make successful projects products and combining them with considered “vital problems” for the of agriculture, the food and forestry in various fields available for the innovation, by inserting new future of Europe and, implicitly, of sector, which can lead to an open and reader, highlighting the growth of elements, as truffle cheese Romania. According to a recent Euro durable economy, as well as to the competitiveness in the rural area production, or as onion bread or barometer survey (http://ec.europa. drawing investments and creating and the sustainable development, oregano bred production, following eu/public_opinion/index_en.htm), new jobs in European villages. providing thus a balance between traditional recipes, bean chips, and Europeans attach a high importance economic, social and environmental also many other interesting to the agriculture: approximately Rural development projects aspects. activities. 53% of them consider it to be, along implemented during the programming with the development of rural areas, period 2007-2013 at national and The magazine shows projects The projects described are widely a “very important” stake for the European levels can be taken as targeting the purchase of high applicable, being European future, and most of them opine that models by the future Beneficiaries. performance machines, which participation models to the is important to ensure the diversity They have the role of teaching them the contribute to the growth of the refurbishment of certain factories/ of agricultural sectors and of food stages needed to achieve the results productivity of agricultural facilities, and to the development products within the European Union. expected and to warn them regarding exploitations, the touristic and growth of the competitiveness of These observations are according to the critical aspects which need paying promotion of the rural area, certain enterprises and developing the new European joint agricultural much attention. valorising jobs and traditional rural communities. 2 3 PROJECTS FROM ROMANIA LEGEND: The areas from which the examples of good practices have been selected are presented in the following pages 4 5 CHAPTER 1. LOCAL ACTION GROUPS Ecoleg Olt Inferior LAG. The rural Oltenia with projects The semi-subsistence farm is that in the third implementation year and farm producing especially for its own the growth of the production traded which are worth 2.4 million Euro consumption, but it trades a part of by 20%. The land covered by Ecoleg Olt of approximately 2 360 000 Euro. the production achieved. Inferior LAG is located on the right The distribution of the funds was Project title: Cereal and technical shore of Olt River, in the South Side made within seven selection calls Such a farm is owned also by Ionuţ plants storage unit, Tia Mare of the Romanian Plain and it fits the starting with 2013, by Measure 112 Defta, the beneficiary of the project commune, Olt County limit of nine localities, including (11 projects), Measure 121 (nine), presented here. At the time of filling Project financed through the seven communes in Olt County and Measure 141 (ten), Measure 123 (one the financing application, the Measure 123 – “Raising the added two in Teleorman County. At the project), Measure 312 (seven), semi-subsistence farm covered 1.26 value to agricultural and forestry same time, it is located in the vicinity Measure 313 (one project) and ha of arable land cultivated with products” of important towns as Slatina, Measure 322 (nine). alfalfa and he owned a cow for milk, Beneficiary: SC John Green SRL Craiova and Pitești. The localities in 80 sheep, 39 goats, a sow, four pigs, Project location: Tia Mare commune, Olt cover 87.30% of the total area of In order to better show the good 18 egg laying chicken and other two Olt County the LAG, and the ones in Teleorman practice at a territorial level, we domestic birds. cover 12.70% of this area. continue to present three of all the 48 SC John Green SRL came into projects. The general objective of the being in September 2007, having as The area of Ecoleg Olt Inferior project, contracted through the main activity object cultivating LAG includes 34 995 inhabitants, GAL Ecoleg Olt Inferior – Measure 141, is the growth of the vegetables, mellows, root plants and spread on 506.62 km², and their successful projects competitiveness in the agricultural tubers. It performed its operation rurality level is 100%. exploitation which is under a over time in the field of agriculture, Project title: Semi-subsistence restructuring process, in order to administrating arable lands which The land shows coherence in farm of the self-employed facilitate the transition related were leased on a long term from matters of the geographical area and person Defta Ionuţ, Cilieni problems, considering the fact that natural persons in the localities of the natural resources, whereas commune, Olt County the agricultural sector and rural covered by the area of Ecoleg Olt lands occupy a very important part of Project financed through the economy are exposed to the pressure Inferior LAG. The types of cultures the total land fund. The same Measure 141 – “Supporting of the sole market competition. and the areas afferent to them were cohesion is found also in relation to agricultural semi-subsistence farms” changed from one year to another, the cultural resources, to the Beneficiary: Self-employed person The non-repayable financial whereas the company tried cultures localities on the LAG, having an Defta Ionuţ support granted, amounting to 7 500 like mustard or sorghum. The immaterial patrimony formed of Project location: Cilieni commune, Euro, will be used for developing and cultivated areas grew, so that in similar traditions. Olt County modernizing the exploitation, for 2013, the year when he filed the increasing the livestock with two financing application, the In order to accomplish the priority cattle, 40 sheep and 11 goats and for beneficiary of the project in the tasks set within the Local purchasing a cow milking machine locality of Tia Mare had 720, 15 ha of Development Strategy on with a milking capacity of 24 cows leased land. strengthening the agricultural and per hour, single phased engine 0.55 forestry sector, developing the kW) and a digital generator In order to work and harvest crops business environment and (single-stage, with the maximum on the lands in use, SC John Green occupational activities in the power of 2.6 kVA).