The Agency for Intervention and Payments in Agriculture has announced that applications started to be accepted from agricultural producers that were affected by last year’s spring frosts, IPN reports.
The local public authorities of the affected districts should set up special commissions responsible for the examination of applications and should determine the size of financial support. The deadline for applications is ten working days of the creation of special commissions.
The regulations concerning the method of providing financial support to farmers for diminishing the consequences of the late frosts of last spring were approved by the Government on April 5, 2017. Under the regulations, the financial assistance will be provided for crops, fruit trees and nut trees and strawberries. The size of financial support will depend on the affected area, extent of damage, comparable prices for 2015 and lost harvest.
Last spring, the low temperatures below the biological resistance of some of the agricultural crops caused damage in the districts of Briceni, Donduseni, Drochia, Glodeni, Ocnita, Rascani and partially Soroca, mainly to fruit trees.
