The first twinning project in the subsidization area, to the value of €1.2 million, was launched in Chisinau on February 23. The goal of the EU-funded project is to develop the subsidization system in Moldova and strengthen the capacities of the Agency fir Intervention and Payments in Agriculture managed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, IPN reports.
The two-year project will be implemented by the Agency fir Intervention and Payments in Agriculture in cooperation with the twinning partners – the consortium consisting of AgrarMarkt Austria (senior partner) and the Czech State Agricultural Intervention Fund and the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture of Poland (junior partners).
In the launch, Minister of Agriculture Eduard Grama expressed his conviction that the project will contribute to the better management of the measures related to agriculture and rural development in Moldova. “To encourage this process, the state and, surely, the development partners should materially stimulate investment. On this occasion, I want to sincerely thank and express our recognition to the development partners, the European Commission and the donor countries, for the support provided to our country,” stated the minister.
Twinning is a European Union instrument for institutional cooperation between Public Administrations of EU Member States and of beneficiary or partner countries. Twinning projects bring together public sector expertise from EU Member States and beneficiary countries with the aim of achieving concrete mandatory operational results through peer to peer activities.
