OREANDA-NEWS. March 20, 2013. The deputy head of the Agency for Intervention and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA), Nicolae Ciubuca, today held a seminar for the participants in the MOLDAGROTECH exhibition at the Moldexpo centre. He stressed the state?s priorities on supporting the agricultural sector for 2013.

Nicolae Ciubuca said that the government will continue to back the sectors of animal breeding and irrigation as well as the investments regarding the refrigerating devices. He noted that in 2013, the priority would be given to the financing applications coming from young farmers and from those residing in rural areas.

Experts of the Agriculture and Food Ministry are currently working out an electronic register on farmers and they hope to put it into practice in two years. The register will help the AIPA take the best financing decisions.

Ciubuca told the farmers attending the event that over 40 per cent of the 400 million lei earmarked for agriculture in 2012 had been used to buy agricultural equipment. He voiced hope that the producers would attach the same importance to irrigation systems and to the need to ensure crops against bad weather.

In 2013, the state will allot 400 million lei to the agricultural sector. Other 60 million lei will be given by the European Union in order to back pilot-projects meant to assess the assimilation capacity of funds by the Moldovan farmers.