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[00:00:00] can be submitted on the agency's website until October
[00:00:03] 31, 2026,
[00:00:06] with funds available of over 7
[00:00:09] million euros. Also, farmers can submit
[00:00:13] funding applications through intervention
[00:00:16] DR-14, investments in small
[00:00:19] farms, also until October 31,
[00:00:22] 2026. Available funds are
[00:00:25] over 44 million euros for
[00:00:28] investments in... vegetable farming, over
[00:00:31] 44 million euros for investments in
[00:00:35] the livestock sector, over 19 million euros for
[00:00:39] simple acquisitions and over 43 million
[00:00:43] euros for investments in other sectors. More
[00:00:46] updated details can be found on the agency's official website.
[00:00:50] agency.
[00:03:28] work and household. has always been held in high esteem, the
[00:03:32] recipes inherited from grandparents have become over time more than a fall
[00:03:36] ritual, they have become a family business,
[00:03:38] so we put it there too, we will have
[00:03:42] to turn them because the fire is too strong, yes the fire is too strong, but we
[00:03:46] turn them slowly so they don't burn.
[00:04:00] oh, how nice it smells
[00:04:02] baked, we are a very numerous
[00:04:06] family and very hardworking people,
[00:04:09] I initially had a company in
[00:04:13] the automotive field, but making
[00:04:16] these products every year, in the fall,
[00:04:21] not deviate my sisters, sisters-in-law, mom, wife, our friends encouraged us when
[00:04:25] they came and ate and said they were very good,
[00:04:29] each friend would come and say that I
[00:04:32] like it if you could make it or not make it, they would ask you, don't you make
[00:04:36] this product, yes, let's see. The first products were
[00:04:39] made for close ones, then encouragements came more
[00:04:43] and more often. A friend who had several stores in
[00:04:47] Sibiu, proposed to turn the passion into a
[00:04:49] business. I have a very good friend who
[00:04:53] has about 40 stores in Sibiu and he told me: "He
[00:04:57] encouraged me." He even told me: "I'm going to
[00:05:00] make traditional products because he will
[00:05:03] promote them in their stores and that's how it was, it helped a lot.
[00:05:07] lot.
[00:05:11] That's how the story began: first with elderflower syrup, then with
[00:05:15] zacusca, roasted capia peppers, pickled gogoshari, cucumbers
[00:05:18] and many other
[00:05:20] products.
[00:05:24] And slowly I started, first with elderflower syrup, then
[00:05:28] with zacusca, roasted capia,
[00:05:31] gogoshari, pickled cucumbers. And so I reached
[00:05:34] over 25 products that we make and
[00:05:38] promote in stores in Sibiu, in
[00:05:41] the country. in 14 European countries,
[00:05:45] no matter how far a jar goes, the story always
[00:05:48] begins here, in the family. At home
[00:05:52] there are very few of us because we have products that
[00:05:55] we have here in the garden, but for larger quantities, then I have to go
[00:05:59] to the agricultural basins and bring
[00:06:02] from Corabia, Izbiceni, Ciliieni,
[00:06:05] cabbage from Lungulețu, Dâmbovița or other parts,
[00:06:09] I even reached Matca for cucumbers, because that's their mother.
[00:06:13] So, what can I say, it's a very, very
[00:06:16] beautiful thing. For the family, traditional means first
[00:06:20] and foremost quality, vegetables carefully selected, without dyes,
[00:06:24] preservatives or additives and recipes that they do not
[00:06:27] deviate from. A traditional product
[00:06:30] means the product that from the moment the
[00:06:33] goods are taken, the quality must always be first
[00:06:37] class, to be very well
[00:06:40] processed, not to be there. dyes, preservatives,
[00:06:44] additives and all the work we
[00:06:47] do, we do manually, it's hard to
[00:06:50] believe, but it really is, you know,
[00:06:53] we stir in the pot manually, we put it
[00:06:56] in jars manually, labeling, all manually,
[00:07:00] everything is done manually. Behind
[00:07:02] a product there are hours of work and not just in
[00:07:06] the workshop, there are trips across the country for raw materials,
[00:07:09] investments, documents, clients and many situations. that need to be
[00:07:13] resolved on the go,
[00:07:15] there are as usual problems even with money,
[00:07:19] many times, there are very many
[00:07:21] investments, it is also difficult
[00:07:25] to go for goods in
[00:07:28] the country, you drive at night,
[00:07:31] rain, blizzard, accidents, there are all kinds of
[00:07:35] situations, plus it's
[00:07:38] more difficult I could say that...
[00:07:43] it's even manufacturing,
[00:07:46] processing here of the products, because we work all
[00:07:49] the time with fire and then we have to be
[00:07:52] very careful, we really are, we have
[00:07:56] fire extinguishers all the time here next to us, authorized,
[00:07:59] we are from the firefighters and we have to be very
[00:08:03] careful. The business was built without European
[00:08:05] funds. Investments have come so far from the family's
[00:08:09] own resources. First
[00:08:12] time. we started it with our own funds,
[00:08:15] and to
[00:08:18] access European funds, we have not
[00:08:21] even managed to this day, we have
[00:08:24] made projects for individual enterprises,
[00:08:27] less,
[00:08:31] but we also made an SRL to
[00:08:34] obtain funds, the pandemic came, the
[00:08:37] deadline passed and we still haven't managed to access
[00:08:41] any funds. projects have been made, but we haven't
[00:08:44] managed to finalize them. So everything we did, we did with our
[00:08:48] own funds. Among all the products, Zakusca holds a special
[00:08:52] place. It is the first product certified as traditional
[00:08:55] and, says the founder, the real driving force of
[00:08:58] the business. As a traditional product is
[00:09:02] Zacusca, which is also
[00:09:05] the locomotive, I could say, of
[00:09:09] our products. It involved a lot
[00:09:11] of work, even bureaucratic,
[00:09:14] birocratică,
[00:09:17] it is quite a complicated and thick
[00:09:21] file,
[00:09:24] it implies that all
[00:09:27] the stages must be strictly respected
[00:09:30] and
[00:09:33] from the recipes and all the products must be
[00:09:37] natural and that's why we have it and we want
[00:09:41] to certify other products. The recipes remained
[00:09:44] the same, but the family grew, and with it, the responsibilities also
[00:09:48] grew. The children began to gradually enter the
[00:09:52] business story. I started by
[00:09:55] learning this field. Then
[00:09:59] I started by looking for
[00:10:02] local producers and the highest quality products
[00:10:05] for. A finished product
[00:10:08] also came out,
[00:10:10] a top product.
[00:10:12] "I continued with sales, looking for
[00:10:16] clients, the most difficult part, I think,
[00:10:18] is choosing the raw
[00:10:22] material as products." perishable
[00:10:26] must be selected,
[00:10:29] chosen and bought,
[00:10:32] the best products, I take care of everything, I try to help in
[00:10:36] everything, I deal a lot with paperwork, I also help
[00:10:40] mom with producing anything that has to do with
[00:10:43] jars,
[00:10:46] I also run around town when needed, in my
[00:10:49] father's place, anything, I would love to continue with my
[00:10:53] brother.
[00:10:56] Yes. To run the business. A family
[00:10:59] business also means moments when fatigue sets
[00:11:03] in. I try to find the strength to move
[00:11:06] forward. To be here day by day, I would say from day
[00:11:09] to day. Day by day. If
[00:11:12] parents built the business through hard work and recommendations, the younger
[00:11:16] generation comes with a different perspective. Online
[00:11:19] promotion. Currently, word of
[00:11:22] mouth and on the online website that we
[00:11:25] own, we operate nationwide through it and
[00:11:28] in the near future I intend
[00:11:32] to focus much more on online marketing.
[00:11:35] In the family, everyone finds their
[00:11:38] place, and when it comes to the products made here, preferences
[00:11:42] are perhaps the hardest to choose. Not that they are
[00:11:46] ours, but I like all of them very much, but I would
[00:11:49] say roasted capia peppers and
[00:11:51] zacusca. Today products are promoted.
[00:12:11] through recommendations, through stores, at fairs, but also online, and customer feedback is the most important confirmation that the family's recipes have remained to people's taste. we tried to keep the recipes, as I told you before, sacredly, we never compromised on quality and we are very well known and we are happy when everyone calls you and praises you, even friends, even acquaintances, then it is an enormous satisfaction for us and a spiritual fulfillment. For those who buy Mărcinean products, it means more than a simple zacusca, a jar of roasted capia or a syrup. It means the taste of a home where once in autumn people worked for the winter that was coming. It dissatisfies people because they no longer have to make smoke and fumes in the apartment to roast eggplants or roasted capia, they buy them directly from us. and they are very satisfied that they have the taste of home from childhood, the taste from their grandparents.
[00:12:15] niciodată și suntem foarte cunoscuți și
[00:12:19] ne bucurăm când toată lumea te sună și
[00:12:23] te laudă, chiar și prieteni, chiar și ne'. cunoscuți, atunci
[00:12:27] este satisfacție enormă pentru noi și o mulțumire
[00:12:30] sufletească. Pentru cei care cumpără produsele Mărcinean
[00:12:33] înseamnă mai mult decât o simplă zacuscă, un borcan de capia copt
[00:12:37] sau un sirop. Înseamnă gustul unei case în care cândva se muncea
[00:12:41] toamna pentru iarna care urma.
[00:12:44] Nemulțumește lumea pentru că nu mai trebuie să facă
[00:12:47] ei sfară și fum în apartament să coacă vinetele sau
[00:12:51] capia copt, le cumpără direct de la noi. și
[00:12:55] s foarte mulțumiți că au gustul de acasă din
[00:13:00] la bunici.
[00:13:41] Brycoop is one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in
[00:13:45] Romania, the total area cultivated by the members of this
[00:13:49] associative form, exceeding 13,000 hectares. The large
[00:13:51] agricultural cooperative based
[00:13:55] in Brăila County decided to start a project commensurate
[00:13:58] with its size, an immense storage space currently
[00:14:02] under construction. Mr.
[00:14:05] Mocanu, you insisted, you invited us to come here,
[00:14:09] to see, I call it, a mega-project
[00:14:12] of the Brycop Agricultural Cooperative. You are
[00:14:15] a member of this cooperative and you insisted
[00:14:18] that we come here to see a project implemented with
[00:14:22] European funds, a large. storage
[00:14:25] and conditioning space for seeds,
[00:14:28] that's what I know so far, I would ask you to give us more details,
[00:14:32] the project has two components, storage
[00:14:35] spaces and two halls for
[00:14:38] seed processing, these two parts help
[00:14:41] us a lot on the farm, because they
[00:14:45] greatly facilitate logistics. What does
[00:14:48] logistics mean? for those who want to store, they will have
[00:14:51] the opportunity to store at the cooperative.
[00:14:55] and sell their goods in the period they wish.
[00:14:59] The other component of seed production
[00:15:02] helps,
[00:15:04] helps the farmer to know exactly the quality
[00:15:08] of the seed and
[00:15:12] how should I say, the added value that we paid to someone else now remains
[00:15:16] with us in the cooperative and allows us to
[00:15:19] develop. The warehouse for cereals and
[00:15:23] oilseeds of the Agricultural Cooperative, a unit
[00:15:26] still under construction, is located in
[00:15:29] Baldovinești commune. The exact name of the project
[00:15:32] largely financed by European funds, is
[00:15:36] establishment of storage and conditioning facilities for
[00:15:39] agricultural products, fences and utility access.
[00:15:43] The constructions are very advanced, the project
[00:15:46] is going very well, we say,
[00:15:50] now we'll see what else will happen. Are there delays in
[00:15:53] the project implementation? There are no delays, in fact
[00:15:57] we are very, very on track. The money comes, no, it's from the European
[00:16:00] Union. Is the project affected by government
[00:16:04] decisions regarding the stopping of some internal funds?
[00:16:07] The financial situation is very clear, acceptance reports are made,
[00:16:11] acceptance reports of the works,
[00:16:14] payment situations, are submitted to AFIR, the money is waited
[00:16:17] for, it is collected, no, there are no problems on this
[00:16:20] side. The farmers of the Braicop
[00:16:24] agricultural cooperative in Brăila county cultivate cereals and
[00:16:28] oilseeds on large areas, predominantly. The flow
[00:16:31] of seeds during harvesting from the field to
[00:16:35] the storage facilities on farms. or directly to the port
[00:16:38] of Constanta, is impressive. What types
[00:16:42] of seeds will be stored and conditioned
[00:16:45] here? Primarily now we would have liked to process
[00:16:48] the wheat and barley seeds for this campaign, but
[00:16:51] I don't know if we will succeed as we wanted,
[00:16:55] but our station will produce
[00:16:58] all the necessary seeds for
[00:17:02] the farm, from corn, sunflower, soy, wheat and
[00:17:06] barley. A... farmer member of
[00:17:09] the Bry Cop Cooperative is
[00:17:12] obliged, is conditioned by a contract to store here or
[00:17:16] is it a free choice? No, no,
[00:17:19] the farmer, member of Braicop only has the obligation to sell
[00:17:23] 75% of the goods through Braicop, that is,
[00:17:27] not at Braicop and the storage
[00:17:30] part belongs to the decision of each one who
[00:17:34] can, who cannot, each one as... as
[00:17:38] they wish and as it suits them, practically it depends on money, that is, if you have
[00:17:42] money, you keep it, if you don't have money, you don't keep it, but it's not a rule now that if
[00:17:45] you keep it and it grows or decreases
[00:17:48] or, everything, everything is a
[00:17:51] risk. The topic of crop
[00:17:54] storage is still debated in the agricultural sector.
[00:17:57] The war started by Russia against Ukraine on
[00:18:00] February 24, 2022 and more
[00:18:03] recently the geopolitical crisis in the Middle East, have turned
[00:18:07] old habits of the agricultural market upside down. Long-term
[00:18:11] storage of production in storage facilities has
[00:18:14] proven to be a losing option in certain periods,
[00:18:17] due to price volatility. Instead of selling
[00:18:20] more expensively as they expected, farmers helplessly watched
[00:18:24] cereal prices collapse, as happened in
[00:18:28] the fateful commercial year 2022,
[00:18:31] 2023. The approach to storage has
[00:18:35] changed a bit precisely because of
[00:18:38] market volatility. There is a tendency for the farmer
[00:18:41] to try to sell his crop from the field or based on
[00:18:44] futures contracts or we
[00:18:48] still have proof here, storage remains
[00:18:50] essential in the relationship with the market, what does
[00:18:54] the Romanian farmer do? if we look at the last 10
[00:18:58] years, in the last 10 years
[00:19:01] the trend was to store the goods because
[00:19:04] you were sure of an increase of 10, 15, in
[00:19:08] some cases 20%, which in the last three years has
[00:19:12] not happened, in fact, whoever sold futures
[00:19:16] or at harvest, I don't know if they
[00:19:18] got more, but at least the same price as those who stored for
[00:19:22] a year, with high costs, of aeration,
[00:19:25] gassing, conditioning, what else is done to
[00:19:29] the goods, that is, if it will
[00:19:32] end or not, no one knows, everyone relies
[00:19:35] on...
[00:19:39] What he thinks, no, no, you can't rely on
[00:19:42] anything, no, no, it's not known, it's not known if
[00:19:45] the market will calm down, you see new wars are appearing,
[00:19:49] which leads to market disruptions
[00:19:52] and very high volatility, especially for
[00:19:56] legumes, and then there is, there is a risk
[00:19:59] that a mega warehouse will remain empty, because the cooperative
[00:20:03] farmer sold his goods from the field, risks will
[00:20:07] always exist, we also make acquisitions
[00:20:09] of cereals,
[00:20:13] trading, that is
[00:20:16] there will be turnover, there will be turnover, whether it will be third-party goods or
[00:20:20] those of cooperative members, that remains to be seen,
[00:20:23] but in a normal situation, in a
[00:20:26] normal climate, at least a part
[00:20:29] of, a part of the production
[00:20:33] you have to keep it, that is,
[00:20:36] a large one or maybe... the largest agricultural cooperative in Romania, it's good to also
[00:20:40] have a large storage space, it's mandatory,
[00:20:43] it's very good, you can imagine with the help
[00:20:46] of European funds, because without these we wouldn't be talking
[00:20:50] now, how can it not be good, but everything has very, very
[00:20:54] high costs,
[00:21:16] a farmer who will store here, what costs will
[00:21:20] he have? How much will the cooperative charge him per kilogram, per
[00:21:23] ton, for the usual costs and
[00:21:27] those of the equipment because we also have a project on DR12 for
[00:21:30] equipment, they are only for
[00:21:34] bank expenses, salary expenses, maintenance
[00:21:37] expenses and expenses
[00:21:41] with that's about it, in fact, it will be the same for
[00:21:45] the storage part and a small profit for the cooperative which is actually
[00:21:48] normal to be like that, it will be the same for
[00:21:52] the storage part, that is, members will only be charged the
[00:21:56] maintenance fees
[00:21:59] and a small symbolic profit that must remain with the cooperative because that's what
[00:22:03] the bank requires from us, the financial statements require us, you can't
[00:22:06] work for nothing. Well, if I am
[00:22:09] a farmer, a member of the cooperative like you, is it still worth it to consider
[00:22:13] having my own storage space, when here the
[00:22:16] cooperative provides me with space here, should I
[00:22:20] still bother with my silo or do I have space at
[00:22:23] the cooperative, how do you see it economically speaking, first of all and if
[00:22:27] it wasn't, if it wasn't
[00:22:30] for this investment here, no normal farmer cannot and
[00:22:33] given the dimensions of our farmers cannot
[00:22:36] make this storage space
[00:22:39] alone because it is very, very expensive, that is
[00:22:43] it is impossible,
[00:22:45] the discussion is not, no, but I'm saying not even a small space on my farm
[00:22:49] is worth it anymore.
[00:22:52] a small buffer space on the farm is always welcome, because
[00:22:56] blockages appear, they appear on the route, as it was with those
[00:22:59] heatwaves, restrictions appear
[00:23:02] on transport, that is,
[00:23:06] help you, but a real storage space like this
[00:23:09] we cannot, but first of all it's not worth it and
[00:23:13] secondly it's impossible to do.
[00:23:16] Seed conditioning is the other important
[00:23:19] component of the activity carried out in a storage space.
[00:23:23] This sequential operation ensures
[00:23:26] the preparation of seeds for the establishment of agricultural
[00:23:29] crops. Well, let's focus a bit on conditioning.
[00:23:33] I understand storage, conditioning. What exactly does
[00:23:36] conditioning mean? So, practically we
[00:23:39] take the goods from the field, we
[00:23:43] bring them to the hall and they come out in
[00:23:46] bags directly for sowing. That is, they
[00:23:50] are sorted, treated,
[00:23:52] bagged,
[00:23:55] that is, all that remains is to sow, you
[00:23:58] pick up the desired amount of seed and go to
[00:24:02] the field. We are talking about goods with genetic value, about
[00:24:05] inputs, seeds, yes, in
[00:24:09] this case I told you this year, the wheat and barley that we want to
[00:24:12] process, and then the farmer will come here and buy
[00:24:16] the necessary quantity and will not go anywhere else but to...
[00:24:20] So he will take his bags of seeds and go directly to the field to sow.
[00:24:37] The final deadline? We want it to be ready
[00:24:41] by the end of 2027 , for all the
[00:24:44] work to be accepted.
[00:24:47] The total eligible value of the project is
[00:24:50] 10,767,82
[00:24:53] €. Of this amount, almost 7 million
[00:24:57] euros represent non-reimbursable funding from the
[00:25:00] European Union. Does the European Union help Romanian
[00:25:03] agriculture? Very much from my point of view, without these
[00:25:07] European funds we could not develop. Some people on TikTok ask, what does
[00:25:11] the EU do for us? You know,
[00:25:14] no, no, everyone can ask anything. It has
[00:25:18] developed us a lot.
[00:25:37] Thank you very much, we conclude the discussion about the warehouse here,
[00:25:41] two words about the agricultural season
[00:25:43] 2025/2026 on the Mocanu farm in
[00:25:47] Brăila. Are you already drawing the line for wheat? The
[00:25:50] 2025- 2026 season was a
[00:25:53] good one, not very good, but not bad either, we are in
[00:25:57] full swing, we have not drawn any lines yet, we have
[00:26:01] no exceptional personal results,
[00:26:04] no bad results, we hope to pay off our debts and
[00:26:06] to be able to start the new campaign
[00:26:10] which will not take long to
[00:26:12] sow. When I conducted this interview in Brăila
[00:26:16] county, the sunflower was displaying its beauty and promising
[00:26:20] harvests beyond expectations in numerous farms. It is
[00:26:23] a good year for sunflowers. I saw sunflower
[00:26:26] fields, well, they looked good. At first glance
[00:26:30] it seems so, there are rainy areas. there are areas that have not been
[00:26:33] rained on, there are areas that have suffered
[00:26:35] disasters, usually if
[00:26:39] it starts well it is possible to end well too, the important thing is that it
[00:26:43] started well, we will see, it's not much left for the sunflower
[00:26:47] harvesting campaign either, we are in almost the middle
[00:26:50] of July, in a month, a month and a half, usually
[00:26:54] usually harvesting begins and we will see, all
[00:26:58] in all we have premises, good
[00:27:00] premises and a new one will begin? "I wish you success now with
[00:27:04] the harvest, I wish you success with the launch, to everyone, to everyone
[00:27:08] to harvest what they have in the field. With
[00:27:11] the help of European funds, the Brycob cooperative in Brăila
[00:27:15] county is building a warehouse for storing and conditioning
[00:27:19] seeds harvested from the over 13,000 hectares
[00:27:22] cultivated by the 60 farmer members of this
[00:27:26] associative structure. money from Brussels and storage
[00:27:30] facilities are key solutions for development. Romanian agriculture.
[00:27:54] It can be said that this summer cherries were the stars of the
[00:27:57] season. The orchards were full of fruit, to the delight
[00:28:01] of both farmers and
[00:28:03] consumers.
[00:28:08] Unfortunately, not all consumers were
[00:28:11] well-off.
[00:28:15] For example, crows and magpies destroyed a
[00:28:18] large part of the harvest of an orchard in Năvodari,
[00:28:21] Constanța
[00:28:22] county.
[00:28:29] In addition, it is also an organic cherry
[00:28:32] orchard, in which the owner invested a lot,
[00:28:36] the plantation being made from own funds.
[00:28:49] When did you start this business and why a cherry
[00:28:53] orchard? In 2020
[00:28:56] I established the plantation, it is an area
[00:29:00] of 4.95 hectares.
[00:29:04] Being a horticulturist
[00:29:06] by profession, I went with the idea of doing something
[00:29:10] in my free time, an activity that
[00:29:13] I could manage and
[00:29:16] to know
[00:29:19] the details regarding the species
[00:29:22] and the plantation and the activity,
[00:29:25] so in 2020 I established the plantation. It was a very
[00:29:29] difficult year, if we all remember, it was one of the
[00:29:33] driest years recorded,
[00:29:35] later we had many losses,
[00:29:39] I didn't have the irrigation system, I struggled
[00:29:42] a bit at the beginning,
[00:29:44] so I established the plantation, did
[00:29:47] you establish the plantation with your own funds or
[00:29:51] yes, so the whole plantation and everything I
[00:29:55] did here is made from
[00:29:58] personal resources, from personal resources, how much did the land
[00:30:02] part cost you? It was bought a long time
[00:30:05] ago, as for just the planting
[00:30:09] material, the irrigation system and fencing and so
[00:30:12] on, somewhere around 1000 euros
[00:30:16] per hectare, I estimate, so to speak, so about
[00:30:19] 5000, let's say about 5000 with machinery and so
[00:30:23] on, but we are talking about this money accumulated
[00:30:27] over the course of years, what varieties
[00:30:30] of cherries do you have? I tried
[00:30:33] to make a
[00:30:36] fairly wide variety of cultivars to be able to
[00:30:40] harvest for a month considering
[00:30:44] that
[00:30:46] in our area there is a deficiency with the workforce.