Projects & Practice

On-farm processing can add value to the product and can also make farming a more attractive choice for young farmers - as demonstrated by a berry farm in Finland.

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

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

Installing an efficient irrigation system in a fig orchard helped to better manage water stress for the trees and increased the quality and volume of production.

A young female farmer used RDP support to set up a traditional backing oven and start selling organic bread in the local area.

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

A company developed a new allergen free healthy snack and used RDP support to set up the commercial production process.

A winery in response to changing consumers’ preferences, decided to restructure its bottling plant in order to widen the range of high quality wines produced.