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Trade: Romania running positive balance of poultry meat trade, 2012 exports top 250 ml euros
Romania's poultry meat exports in 2012 were in excess of 250 million euros, while imports stood at 200 million euros, so that the country ran for the first time a positive trade balance in this sector, Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin announced.
'We support the poultry meat sector because it has developed extremely well in recent years. Whereas so far Romania's relevant trade was running a deficit, 2012 was the first year when our poultry meat exports outperformed imports. Romania's poultry meat outbound shipments in 2012 stood at over 250 million euros, while imports amounted to only 200 million euros. Nevertheless, the sector experiences difficulties because tax evasion affects its very survival,' Constantin said.
The Minister underscored that all these aspects because after talks with the producers, solutions were identified to supplement the dedicated financial support from European funds.
'I promised them and we identified solutions to increase funding from European money under the National Rural Development Program, which were anyway not enough to cover all the applications filed by pig and fowl breeders. We are speaking of a need for 200 million euros annually to support this sector,' added the MADR head.
Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin met on Wednesday at the MADR headquarters with members of the Board of Directors of the ProAgro National Federation of the Romanian Agriculture and Food Industry Producers. Also participating in talks were representatives of the Romania Farmers Association, the National Inter-professional Vine and Wine Organisation, the League of Irrigation Water Users, the Romanian Pork Producers Association, the Romanian Poultry Breeders Union, the National Association of Young Romanian Farm Producers, the ‘Planta Romanica' Employers Association, the Dobrogea Sheep Breeders Association and the Federation of Mountain Shepherds.