Producers in Scotland saw the opportunity to link together their activities to encourage greater visitor numbers to rural destinations by creating a network of artisan chocolatiers.
Projects & Practice
The Think Local development programme focuses on developing collaboration in short supply chain, by bringing together existing initiatives on farmers’ markets, farm retail, food tourism, regional food and drink networks and in developing added value for rural producers.

A small potato-growing farm used RDP support to purchase a new processing line to enhance its economic performance.

Support from the rural development programme was used to establish an innovative production of GMO-free soybean oil products of superior quality.

A historic Chateau was restored to its initial state and turned into one of the most modern wine-producing facilities in Slovakia.

The Slovakian rural development programme supported a high-quality bakery business in its efforts to increase production capacity and profitability.

A bakery company producing high quality traditional bakery products used support from the rural development programme to modernise and expand its production capacity.

Expanding the production capacity of a company producing pumpkin seeds and potatoes, by investing in new machinery.

The Cywain Agriculture Project is an agri-food support scheme to develop innovative ideas in adding value to Welsh produce.

EAFRD support helped a traditional dairy producer in Scotland to differentiate his production from milk into an organic certified mozzarella type of cheese.