Projects & Practice

Turning a subsistence family farm into a dynamic agri-business through modernization and adoption of affordable new equipment.

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.

A family business, with a long-standing tradition of producing denim clothing, used support from the LEADER measure to establish a modern workshop and increase its share in domestic and international markets.

In order to improve the economic performance of his holding, a young farmer received support to increase the cultivated land and to build an irrigated greenhouse for the production of vegetables.

LEADER support for an arts in education project that promotes gender quality among school children in rural areas.

Responding to clients’ needs by offering new integrated veterinary services using a mobile laboratory.

Financed by the Romanian rural development programme, a small patisserie and confectionary workshop upscaled its business by constructing a new building to increase its production capacity and offer utility areas to customers.

LEADER support helped establish a web school for local businesses providing them with the tools to better organise their work and market their services and products.

RDP funding helped improve a meat supply chain in Aude, France, boosting breeders’ income.

Given that compost for growing oyster mushrooms was not produced in Romania and had to be imported, a group of farmers used EAFRD to build a plant for producing  compost using their own wheat straw.