Dacian Ciolos, the Romanian European commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, sees the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as an effort of member states to offer alternative models, local specificity, capable of offering "Europe's landscapes and diversity of food products" over the next decades.
"What I expect from all member states, Romania included, is for them to argue in favour of keeping and promoting types of agricultural work and products that are characteristic to them, as part of the new European policy, to see in the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy an opportunity to offer alternative models to Europe," Dacian Ciolos told Mediafax news agency in an interview.
The Romanian agriculture is characterised by big wheat, corn, and sunflower crops, which cover 40,000-50,000 hectares, as well as by small farms in hilly and mountainous areas, with two or three hectares of land and just a few livestock.
"Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) entails an examination of all member states, and now Romania has a chance, for the first time, to impose its view on the type of agriculture it performs. The Minister of Agriculture is currently working on a set of measures to promote various sectors, such as vegetable growing, fruit growing, livestock raising, hilly and mountainous areas, which will receive different subsidies, other forms of support," Adrian Radulescu, Secretary of State within the Ministry of Agriculture, told ZF.
Dacian Ciolos, the Romanian European commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, sees the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as an effort of member states to offer alternative models, local specificity, capable of offering "Europe's landscapes and diversity of food products" over the next decades.
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