site.btaState Fund Agriculture Pays out Over Lv 14 Mln under Redistributive Payments

State Fund Agriculture Pays out Over Lv 14 Mln under Redistributive Payments

Sofia, June 30 (BTA) - Over 14 million leva are paid out on
Tuesday to farmers, who have applied for redistributive
payments, who had registered overlapping plots, Agriculture and
Food Minister Dessislava Taneva said here on Tuesday. This
brings the total amount of all direct payments under the 2014
campaign to over 1.8 billion leva, the Minister explained.

Taneva was attending a business forum about the 2014-2020 Rural
Development Programme. The event is part of the Nine Paths to EU
 Funds 2015-2020 National Campaign, which aims to reduce the
path between Bulgarian businesses and EU funding.

Taneva noted the exceptional interest in Measure 4.1
"Investments in agricultural holdings", which has a budget of
300 million leva. The applications exceed the budget four times,
 she said.

The Measure 6.1 "Young farmer" also sparked huge interest. It
which kicked off on Monday and will wrap up on July 24 with a
budget 35 million euro.
 
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State Fund Agriculture has paid out close
 to 703,000 leva to 66 producers affected by the ban on the
import of agricultural products from the EU to Russia, the Fund
said on Tuesday. The funds are provided solely by the European
Agricultural Guarantee Fund and are paid out under the two
schemes, introduced by the EC at the end of last year in order
to restore the balance of the EU produce market.

The producers who received aid are from the regions of
Blagoevgrad, Varna, Veliko Turnovo, Dobrich, Kurdzhali, Plovdiv,
 Razgrad, Sofia, Stara Zagora, Haskovo and Shoumen. The funds
were used to finance close to 4,000 tonnes of mushrooms,
tomatoes, lettuce, cauliflower, gherkins, pears, carrots,
apples, among others.