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| (2012-01-20) |
| Last updated: 2012-01-23 16:39 EET |
Romania intends to more actively promote its farm products at the International Food Exhibition held in Berlin under the name ‘Green Week’. The event, in which Romania participates as a partner, is the most important international fair for the food, agriculture and horticultural industry.
Romania is currently a partner in a special event: the International Food Exhibition, entitled Green Week. Once known as ‘the breadbasket of Europe’ during the inter-war period Romania has joined the most important fair in the food, agriculture and horticulture field with the intention of more actively promoting its farm produce on the European and international market, and to attract investment for various projects in this economic sector. Being recent EU members, Romania and Bulgaria can contribute to Europe’s agricultural and rural patrimony, says the agriculture minister in Bucharest Valeriu Tabara, who also attended the fair in Berlin. Tabara went on to say that Romania might witness a positive balance of trade thanks to farm produce in 2016, given the developments in certain agricultural fields.
According to official data, in the first nine months of 2011, trade deficit resulting from farm produce exchanges continued to drop, as in recent years, reaching the figure of 600 million euros. Reduced budget deficits have been possible thanks to rising exports of farm produce. In the first 9 months of 2011, the value of agricultural exports stood at 26 hundred billion euros. The most significant exports involved wheat, corn and tobacco products. According to the minister of agriculture in Bucharest, Romanian farm produce, particularly wines, can be found on the German market, but sadly not in the right quantities. “There is a deficit in Romania’s trade balance with Germany concerning pork imports.”
“I believe that once exports are resumed, a large quantity of pork produce will reach the German market”, says Valeriu Tabara. The Romanian official also stated that Bucharest is attempting to lobby the European Union, preventing non-residents from purchasing land until 2020 and recalled that currently, 8% of Romania’s farmland is owned by foreign citizens, who bought plots under the legislation or have leased the terrain.
The Berlin Fair has been attended by the European commissioner for agriculture, Romanian Dacian Ciolos, who hopes the project of reforming the Common Agricultural Policy will be adopted soon, maybe by early next year. He explains that one of the aims of the reform is to attract and involve young people in farm projects and in order to do that the Commission proposed establishing new funds that can help farmers under 40 who are in their first five years of agricultural projects.
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