Good Practices National Rural Development Network Issue 12 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 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 The Center for Rural Development in Giurgiu LAG. Focus on the prosperity of villages 8 TÂRGU MUREŞ Valea Someșului LAG. Achieving local development by uniting forces 12 Str. Mihai Eminescu, nr. 60, PO Box 540331, [email protected] Tel.: 0365 430 349, Fax: 0365 430 351 CHAPTER 2. FARMS 16 IAŞI The skills and courage needed to set up a business 16 Zona de Agrement Ciric - Complexul de Agrement Ciric, PO Box 700064, [email protected] Tel.: 0332 881 281, Fax: 0332 881 282 Initiatives from which communities can learn 19 TIMIŞOARA CHAPTER 3. PROCESSING 22 Bdul Take Ionescu, nr. 53, et. 2, biroul nr. 26, PO Box 300074, [email protected] Tel.: 0356 460 982, Fax: 0356 460 983 Eggs at European standards 22 TÂRGOVIŞTE A small winery, an annual turnover of 200 000 lei 25 Str. Vărzaru Armaşu, nr. 7A, PO Box 130169, [email protected] CHAPTER 4. NON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES 28 Tel.: 0345 100 025, Fax: 0345 100 605 Dental services in the rural area 28 BUCUREŞTI Str. Nicolae Filipescu, nr. 39-41, et. 6, Sector 2, PO Box 020961, [email protected] A successful project for encouraging the activity of microenterprises in the rural area 31 Tel.: 031 690 0214, Fax: 031 690 0215 A young man from Hunedoara County thrives from the exploitation of a veterinary laboratory 33 PROJECTS FROM EUROPE 38 The text of this publication is only for information purposes and shall entail no legal liability. AUSTRIA and GERMANY. Recreational offers meant for families 40 Additional information on MARD and NSU may be accessed on the Internet at: www.madr.ro, www.rndr.ro. PORTUGAL. The success of a short production chain for olive oil 43 NSU, Publication Department SLOVENIA. Modernization, a vital necessity in a competitive environment 46 ISSN 2286-1742 ISSN-L 2286-1742 BULGARIA. Saddlery comes back in fashion 49 © NRDN, 2015 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 Educating and training farmers through local action groups (farmers, SMEs), farmer associations The direct beneficiaries of the classes and NGOs founded in the rural area of were persons from the entire area of the Human capital is considerably transformation and modernization of the LAG and it highlighted certain Transylvanian Someș LAG, working in important for the rural development. rural economy. efficient and sustainable agricultural the forestry, apiculture, food industry, Rural development and the activities. farming and husbandry fields. Due to diversification of rural economy Such a project was “Training the organizing these classes, 273 farmers depend on the education level, on the farmers in the Transylvanian Someș Professional training classes were were trained, 209 of which were young knowledge and qualification of the LAG” implemented by Civitas organized in Apahida, Bonțida, Jucu, Sic people with ages under 40. The participants to these processes. Foundation for the Civil Society – Cluj and Cornești communes, during the attending farmers were selected from Although improving and maintaining Branch, in partnership with the period between the 20th of January and the area of the Transylvanian Someș, an adequate ground infrastructure is University of Agricultural Sciences and the 24th of February 2014. They included respectively from the Apahida, Aluniș, an important element in the Veterinary Medicine in Cluj-Napoca, and the following modules: Bonțida, Bobâlna, Borșa, Cornești, social-economic progress of the rural this project aimed to improve the • Project management Dăbâca, Iclod, Jucu, Mintiu Gherlii, area, professional training represents knowledge of the target group regarding • Financial management Recea-Cristur, Sic, Vultureni and the “engine” for a good development. the efficient and durable agriculture, the • Marketing methods Gârbou localities (from Sălaj County), local development and the LEADER • Environment protection and they all received participation In this context, NRDP 2007-2013 approach. • Agriculture and ecological products certificates. The project implemented by supported through Measure 111 and • Processing ecological products the Transylvanian Someș was awarded Measure 41.111, projects and actions The project was structured in two • Operation management the winner of 3rd Prize at the section for the professional education and stages: an informing stage, followed by • Apiculture “The European Shuman in Iocan’s training of farmers, for the purpose of a professional training one. The • Vegetable farming Glade”, of the Structural Funds Gala, improving the competitiveness of informing stage was destined for public • Forestry which took place in Cluj-Napoca on the farms and facilitating the beneficiaries, private beneficiaries • New ways for valuing local resources. 15th of December 2014. 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 The Center for Rural Development in Giurgiu LAG. Focus on the prosperity of villages Given the diversity of the rural capacity, for preserving the cultural areas, as LEADER experience patrimony and for developing the accumulated it was reached at the economic environment in the rural conclusion that the development area. strategies are more productive if they are decided locally, depending of the The area covered by the Center for needs of the territory. Rural Development Giurgiu LAG includes 12 localities, 11 in the The Center for Rural Development South-West and in the center of in Giurgiu LAG and his Giurgiu County and one in representatives tried, over the years, Teleorman County. The localities in to discover the main defining traits Giurgiu cover 94% of the land and of the territory. Thus, they performed the one in Teleorman is 6% of the studies of the area, and the results of total area. The total area of the LAG those studies highlighted the specific hosts 40 293 inhabitants spread on advantages of the area – namely the 982.16 m². The area population arable lands which are favorable for density is 41.02 inhabitants/m², agriculture and the richness of the which is much under the national cultural and natural patrimony of the average stating 90 inhabitants/m². area on one hand, and also the economic, social and demographic The land covered by the Center for issues on the other hand. Rural Development Giurgiu LAG is homogenous from a social This LAG came into being after the perspective and it is characterized by Local Development Strategy (LDS) traditions, local identity, joint needs was approved by the Ministry of and expectations. Considering all programs and actions for informing The Center for Rural Agriculture and Rural Development these, six priorities on land and distributing knowledge and Development Giurgiu LAG – and the funds for its foundation development were set and all the encouraging non-agricultural successful projects amounting to 2 415 000 Euro were actions of the group are focused activities. granted. around these. The priorities are: Project title: Modernizing the developing the area by valuing its Based on these priorities and on the farming exploitation of Birlan The purpose of the association is farming potential, adding value to four Measures (121, 312, 313 and 322) Mihaela Self-Employed Person to promote the public-private agricultural and forestry products included in the LDS, 12 selection calls Project financed through the partnership in an associative (due to the location of the group in were launched in the LAG. By means Measure 121 – “Modernizing structure, stimulating thus the the vicinity of certain very important of these selection calls, 25 projects agricultural companies” sustainable development of the land urban centers, like Bucharest and were contracted, having a public total Beneficiary: Self-employed Person and giving the possibility to the Giurgiu), valuing the natural and value of 1 863 617 Euro. Birlan Mihaela participants of the rural cultural potential and developing Project location: Stănești commune, environment, representatives of tourism, strengthening public We further present two projects of Giurgiu County various activity fields, to work services offered to citizens (social, the Center for Rural Development together and interact for cultural, educational, sanitary), Giurgiu LAG, in order to highlight The beneficiary of this project has strengthening the development supporting professional training their replicating factor. approximately 102.60 hectares of land 8 9 across localities Stănești and Izvoarele, they can perform works at a higher maintenance services, as they are not two modules, a washing unit will be leased for a period of 10 years. At the quality, leading to lowering the used exclusively by persons with purchase, a hairdressing chair along time of filing the financing operation costs by approximately 10% financial possibilities or for solving with a professional hairdressing application, only the 101.58 hectares to all work categories where they will certain problems, yet investigations helmet, a barbershop chair, a hydro were considered, whereas the rest of be used, aside from increasing the are made for beauty and preventive massage small tub, a sterilizer and a the area is covered with peas and average production by 3% per hectare.