Prime Minister Ponta: Agriculture to benefit from 3 bln euros in investments this year

The Romanian agricultural sector will benefit from three billion euros in investments this year, with 2.8 billion euros of it being from the European Union funds, Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced at a news conference on The National Plan for Strategic Investments and the Creation of Jobs given on Thursday.

'As regards the national programme aimed at re-building the irrigation system, the (agriculture) minister informed me that 100 million euros has already been assigned. We'll invest around three billion euros, even more, in the agricultural sector this year, in platforms for collecting vegetables and fruit, investments in family farms, in the mutual fund for the support of the farming sector. I repeat that the agricultural production, this year, will probably exceed the 1.6 percent predicted annual growth, based on a good sound thinking we've had since last year and on the nature's support', Ponta said at the Victoria Palace (the Govt's offices).

The prime minister had said on April 30 that he had consulted the latest European Commission estimates, which were positive and he had announced a more significant Romanian agricultural production than last year.

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