Italian, Greek, Jewish, French, Dutch, Cypriot and Lebanese investors control half of the 20 companies with the highest number of cattle in Romania.
The biggest owner is Primo Cezar company of Brasov, which last year had over 3,000 head, according to the Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (APIA).
Primo Cezar has 24 employees and reached 5.8m-euro turnover in 2009, posting 200,000-euro gross income, according to the latest Finance Ministry data. The firm is owned in partnership by Cezar Manuel Florescu and Dutch-born businessman Dirk-Jente Lickle Kuipers.
Last year, cattle owners received subsidies worth around 115m euros, for 1.2 million cattle. Primo Cezar firm, the biggest owner, is also the biggest subsidy beneficiary, getting over 300,000 euros from the state last year.
Cezar Florescu, Primo Cezar owner, says he focused on foreign markets as prices are better than in Romania and payments are made faster.
Smaller farms deliver beef to the domestic market.
Italian, Greek, Jewish, French, Dutch, Cypriot and Lebanese investors control half of the 20 companies with the highest number of cattle in Romania.
The biggest owner is Primo Cezar company of Brasov, which last year had over 3,000 head, according to the Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (APIA).
Primo Cezar has 24 employees and reached 5.8m-euro turnover in 2009, posting 200,000-euro gross income, according to the latest Finance Ministry data. The firm is owned in partnership by Cezar Manuel Florescu and Dutch-born businessman Dirk-Jente Lickle Kuipers.
Last year, cattle owners received subsidies worth around 115m euros, for 1.2 million cattle. Primo Cezar firm, the biggest owner, is also the biggest subsidy beneficiary, getting over 300,000 euros from the state last year.
Cezar Florescu, Primo Cezar owner, says h
