Conditions for subsidizing agricultural producers improved

The users of phytosanitary products and fertilizers who applied for subsidies in 2010, but did not get them because there were not enough financial resources will be able to receive them. The Government extended the term for examining the application by one month, until October 1, Info-Prim Neo reports. Commenting on the amendments made to a previous Government Decision on the method of distributing the money of the agriculture support fund, Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vasile Bumacov said that after the budget law for 2011 is rectified and additional resources are allocated to the subsidization fund, the producers will receive the calculated subsidies on the basis of the given applications. The amendments excluded the subsidy eligibility condition imposed on the producers that lag behind in paying the technical credits allocated from the state budget in 2004-2009 for stimulating the creation of agricultural machinery stations within the 2-KR Project. There was also modified the calculation method used to stimulate lending to agricultural producers by banks and microfinance organizations so that all the recipients of loans are in the same conditions. The producers will be also able to take out loans for partially covering the price of motor cultivators - 25% of the price per unit.