Projects & Practice

Start-up aid for young farmers – Farma pod Radhoštěm s.r.o.

Keywords:: Animal husbandry, Family farming, Product quality, Sustainability, Women, Young farmers
Countries:: Czech Republic

Czech young farmer modernises her small farm’s production of artisan wool.

Setting-up of wooden toy manufacturing workshop in rural Romania

Keywords:: Entrepreneurship, Job creation, Product quality, Rural business
Countries:: Romania

EAFRD support enabled a pair of entrepreneurs to harness their experience to establish a wooden toy manufacturing business, stimulating diversified economic activity and creating jobs in a rural area.

Martina Tomšíčková’s goat farm – Processing organic goat milk

Keywords:: Diversification, Family farming, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Organic farming, Women, Young farmers
Countries:: Czech Republic

CAP funds in Czechia support organic family farm diversification into goat cheese.

A lavender and herb farm creates employment for people with disabilities

Keywords:: Agriculture, Competitiveness, Job creation, Organic farming, Social inclusion, Young farmers
Countries:: Czech Republic

A young farmer with reduced mobility used support from the Rural Development Programme (RDP) to expand his organic lavender farm and create jobs for people with disabilities.

Michaela Hlubková - a dairy farm start-up

Keywords:: Animal husbandry, Entrepreneurship, Women, Young farmers
Countries:: Czech Republic

A young female farmer used RDP support to develop her goat dairy farm into a dairy and become a major supplier of dairy products domestically and abroad.

Codita Sorin-Cristian - a young farmer’s individual enterprise

Keywords:: Agriculture, Competitiveness, Family farming, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Rural SMEs, Young farmers
Countries:: Romania

EAFRD support enabled a young person to start his own commercially-oriented farm, thus contributing to the generational renewal of the sector.

Koronya Horticulture – developing a start-up business in horticulture

Keywords:: Competitiveness, Direct marketing, Entrepreneurship, Rural business, Women, Young farmers
Countries:: Hungary

A female entrepreneur used Rural Development Programme (RDP) support for young farmers to grow her business of producing herbs and container ornamental plants.

Diversification to non-agricultural activities on the farm Abraham

Keywords:: Competitiveness, Diversification, Entrepreneurship, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Rural business
Countries:: Czech Republic

A diversified farm with a carpentry workshop, used RDP support to acquire a telescopic handler in order to improve its productivity.

Cojocaru Nicusor-Alin holding, setting up as a young farmer

Keywords:: Agriculture, Competitiveness, Environmental protection, Job creation, Young farmers
Countries:: Romania

Using RDP support to establish an agricultural holding, purchase agricultural machinery and launch a young farmer’s career .

La Tournerie - 11 young agronomists starting up together in agriculture

Keywords:: Agriculture, Animal husbandry, Competitiveness, Job creation, Organic farming, Young farmers
Countries:: France

A group of young agronomists combined RDP support with innovative financial solutions like crowdfunding to develop a self-sufficient farm growing local, quality organic products.