Projects & Practice

Organic egg facility on Estonian island receives start-up support for a young farmer.

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

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. 

A young farmer created a new business model that combines organic farming and environmental protection with job creation and socially inclusive educational services.  

The long-term programme of knowledge transfer in organic farming was set up to improve the competitiveness of organic farming in Estonia and increase local organic food consumption. 
 

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.

The project took nature-friendly vine cultivation on a family farm a step further to develop zero-waste processing methods that valorise all by-products of grapes in a sustainable and fully circular way. The resulting seeds, oil and flour have proved very popular with customers.

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

An ambitious entrepreneur used business start-up aid for young farmers in order to modernise his farm and create a series of innovative products.  

An example of a large-scale previously state owned farm, which now successfully combines economic sustainability and the provision of public goods.