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Cultivating Competitiveness on a Lithuanian Arable Farm

Summary

EAFRD funding helped an arable farm modernise its equipment and improve its productivity capacity in order to strengthen business competitiveness.

Background

Farm modernisation offers useful benefits as a development tool for rural economies, especially in transitional areas or sectors. Modern technologies can help increase productivity, improve yields, create cost savings and offer environmental benefits. Lithuania’s RDP acknowledges these benefits and provides support to encourage its agricultural sector to modernise as a way of sustaining and strengthening its competitiveness.

Objective

The project’s core objective focused on improving the competitiveness of an arable farm managed by Mr Rimvydas Janušauskas. His farm produces wheat, oilseed rape and barley. Productivity improvements were sought through the use of new equipment for crop production.

Main activities

The project helped provide co-finance for Mr Janušauskas’ own investment in new fertiliser sprinkling equipment and disc harrows.

Results & Benefits

The project benefits include reduced production costs and increased sales revenues, improved tillage efficiency, increased productivity, improved quality of productivity, and improved environmental management.

Lessons learnt

Modernising agricultural techniques can help rural economies to compete more effectively. Environmental benefits can also be created through improved fuel efficiency of modern equipment as well lower impact cultivation methods.

Project location and other information

Pakruojis district, Medikonys village.

Region

Siauliu apskritis

RDP Territory

Lithuania

Total project cost (€)

10 676

Contact name

Rimvydas Janušauskas

Telephone

+3708614 64493

Languages for contact

Lithuanian

At a glance

Country

Lithuania

Final beneficiary type

Individual farmers

Budget range

< €20 000

Start date:

05/05/2009

End Date:

01/09/2009

Theme / Measure:

• Competitiveness of Agriculture & Forestry
• Restructuring, developing physical potential, and promoting innovation
• 121. Modernisation of agricultural holdings

Keywords:

Agricultural method, Machinery, Modernisation, Fertiliser

Last update

23/02/2012