Nearly € 30 million in grants to farmers for two years, the number of applications during the pandemic increases by 27%

The program of grants for farmers foreseen for this year and next year reaches the figure of 29 million euros, said the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, Besian Mustafa

Further, he said that the pandemic has not had a negative effect, even according to him, positive effects have been observed in the growth of applications, where they have reached 27 percent more compared to last year.

The rural development program or the grant program for 2020 and 2021 is a joint program and amounts to 29 million euros

Minister Mustafa stressed that there was no reduction of the budget and as part of the economic recovery package to this ministry were added another 24 million euros for the part of subsidies.