In an article published in the October edition of the Brutarul magazine, our colleague Florentina Nae presents how you can obtain financing for a unit of processing agricultural products through NRDP (PNDR), which are the eligible companies, what are the conditions that need to be accomplished to get a higher score for such projects and more.

European funds for the processing of agricultural products are available through the National Rural Development Programme, sub-measure 4.2 “Support for investments in the processing / marketing of agricultural products”, launched by AFIR on 8^th July this year.

Grant amount: up to 2,500,000 euro.
Percentage of financing: up to 50%.

The applicant must fall under the enterprises category (micro, small and medium enterprises under Law 346/2004, as well as large enterprises) and cooperatives / producer groups and has to ensure the co-financing of the investment. The proposed project must process the raw material that is part of Annex I of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the product obtained has to be also a product included in Annex I.

The projects can be submitted until 30^th October 2015 and the evaluation of the projects will be done monthly for projects that have an estimated score (self-evaluation / pre-scoring) greater than or equal to the quality monthly threshold required by AFIR.

For more information please read the article here.