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00:00:00can be submitted on the agency's website until October
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00:00:06with funds available of over 7
00:00:09million euros. Also, farmers can submit
00:00:13funding applications through intervention
00:00:16DR-14, investments in small
00:00:19farms, also until October 31,
00:00:222026. Available funds are
00:00:25over 44 million euros for
00:00:28investments in... vegetable farming, over
00:00:3144 million euros for investments in
00:00:35the livestock sector, over 19 million euros for
00:00:39simple acquisitions and over 43 million
00:00:43euros for investments in other sectors. More
00:00:46updated details can be found on the agency's official website.
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00:03:28work and household. has always been held in high esteem, the
00:03:32recipes inherited from grandparents have become over time more than a fall
00:03:36ritual, they have become a family business,
00:03:38so we put it there too, we will have
00:03:42to turn them because the fire is too strong, yes the fire is too strong, but we
00:03:46turn them slowly so they don't burn.
00:04:00oh, how nice it smells
00:04:02baked, we are a very numerous
00:04:06family and very hardworking people,
00:04:09I initially had a company in
00:04:13the automotive field, but making
00:04:16these products every year, in the fall,
00:04:21not deviate my sisters, sisters-in-law, mom, wife, our friends encouraged us when
00:04:25they came and ate and said they were very good,
00:04:29each friend would come and say that I
00:04:32like it if you could make it or not make it, they would ask you, don't you make
00:04:36this product, yes, let's see. The first products were
00:04:39made for close ones, then encouragements came more
00:04:43and more often. A friend who had several stores in
00:04:47Sibiu, proposed to turn the passion into a
00:04:49business. I have a very good friend who
00:04:53has about 40 stores in Sibiu and he told me: "He
00:04:57encouraged me." He even told me: "I'm going to
00:05:00make traditional products because he will
00:05:03promote them in their stores and that's how it was, it helped a lot.
00:05:07lot.
00:05:11That's how the story began: first with elderflower syrup, then with
00:05:15zacusca, roasted capia peppers, pickled gogoshari, cucumbers
00:05:18and many other
00:05:20products.
00:05:24And slowly I started, first with elderflower syrup, then
00:05:28with zacusca, roasted capia,
00:05:31gogoshari, pickled cucumbers. And so I reached
00:05:34over 25 products that we make and
00:05:38promote in stores in Sibiu, in
00:05:41the country. in 14 European countries,
00:05:45no matter how far a jar goes, the story always
00:05:48begins here, in the family. At home
00:05:52there are very few of us because we have products that
00:05:55we have here in the garden, but for larger quantities, then I have to go
00:05:59to the agricultural basins and bring
00:06:02from Corabia, Izbiceni, Ciliieni,
00:06:05cabbage from Lungulețu, Dâmbovița or other parts,
00:06:09I even reached Matca for cucumbers, because that's their mother.
00:06:13So, what can I say, it's a very, very
00:06:16beautiful thing. For the family, traditional means first
00:06:20and foremost quality, vegetables carefully selected, without dyes,
00:06:24preservatives or additives and recipes that they do not
00:06:27deviate from. A traditional product
00:06:30means the product that from the moment the
00:06:33goods are taken, the quality must always be first
00:06:37class, to be very well
00:06:40processed, not to be there. dyes, preservatives,
00:06:44additives and all the work we
00:06:47do, we do manually, it's hard to
00:06:50believe, but it really is, you know,
00:06:53we stir in the pot manually, we put it
00:06:56in jars manually, labeling, all manually,
00:07:00everything is done manually. Behind
00:07:02a product there are hours of work and not just in
00:07:06the workshop, there are trips across the country for raw materials,
00:07:09investments, documents, clients and many situations. that need to be
00:07:13resolved on the go,
00:07:15there are as usual problems even with money,
00:07:19many times, there are very many
00:07:21investments, it is also difficult
00:07:25to go for goods in
00:07:28the country, you drive at night,
00:07:31rain, blizzard, accidents, there are all kinds of
00:07:35situations, plus it's
00:07:38more difficult I could say that...
00:07:43it's even manufacturing,
00:07:46processing here of the products, because we work all
00:07:49the time with fire and then we have to be
00:07:52very careful, we really are, we have
00:07:56fire extinguishers all the time here next to us, authorized,
00:07:59we are from the firefighters and we have to be very
00:08:03careful. The business was built without European
00:08:05funds. Investments have come so far from the family's
00:08:09own resources. First
00:08:12time. we started it with our own funds,
00:08:15and to
00:08:18access European funds, we have not
00:08:21even managed to this day, we have
00:08:24made projects for individual enterprises,
00:08:27less,
00:08:31but we also made an SRL to
00:08:34obtain funds, the pandemic came, the
00:08:37deadline passed and we still haven't managed to access
00:08:41any funds. projects have been made, but we haven't
00:08:44managed to finalize them. So everything we did, we did with our
00:08:48own funds. Among all the products, Zakusca holds a special
00:08:52place. It is the first product certified as traditional
00:08:55and, says the founder, the real driving force of
00:08:58the business. As a traditional product is
00:09:02Zacusca, which is also
00:09:05the locomotive, I could say, of
00:09:09our products. It involved a lot
00:09:11of work, even bureaucratic,
00:09:14birocratică,
00:09:17it is quite a complicated and thick
00:09:21file,
00:09:24it implies that all
00:09:27the stages must be strictly respected
00:09:30and
00:09:33from the recipes and all the products must be
00:09:37natural and that's why we have it and we want
00:09:41to certify other products. The recipes remained
00:09:44the same, but the family grew, and with it, the responsibilities also
00:09:48grew. The children began to gradually enter the
00:09:52business story. I started by
00:09:55learning this field. Then
00:09:59I started by looking for
00:10:02local producers and the highest quality products
00:10:05for. A finished product
00:10:08also came out,
00:10:10a top product.
00:10:12"I continued with sales, looking for
00:10:16clients, the most difficult part, I think,
00:10:18is choosing the raw
00:10:22material as products." perishable
00:10:26must be selected,
00:10:29chosen and bought,
00:10:32the best products, I take care of everything, I try to help in
00:10:36everything, I deal a lot with paperwork, I also help
00:10:40mom with producing anything that has to do with
00:10:43jars,
00:10:46I also run around town when needed, in my
00:10:49father's place, anything, I would love to continue with my
00:10:53brother.
00:10:56Yes. To run the business. A family
00:10:59business also means moments when fatigue sets
00:11:03in. I try to find the strength to move
00:11:06forward. To be here day by day, I would say from day
00:11:09to day. Day by day. If
00:11:12parents built the business through hard work and recommendations, the younger
00:11:16generation comes with a different perspective. Online
00:11:19promotion. Currently, word of
00:11:22mouth and on the online website that we
00:11:25own, we operate nationwide through it and
00:11:28in the near future I intend
00:11:32to focus much more on online marketing.
00:11:35In the family, everyone finds their
00:11:38place, and when it comes to the products made here, preferences
00:11:42are perhaps the hardest to choose. Not that they are
00:11:46ours, but I like all of them very much, but I would
00:11:49say roasted capia peppers and
00:11:51zacusca. Today products are promoted.
00:12:11through 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.
00:12:15niciodată și suntem foarte cunoscuți și
00:12:19ne bucurăm când toată lumea te sună și
00:12:23te laudă, chiar și prieteni, chiar și ne'. cunoscuți, atunci
00:12:27este satisfacție enormă pentru noi și o mulțumire
00:12:30sufletească. Pentru cei care cumpără produsele Mărcinean
00:12:33înseamnă mai mult decât o simplă zacuscă, un borcan de capia copt
00:12:37sau un sirop. Înseamnă gustul unei case în care cândva se muncea
00:12:41toamna pentru iarna care urma.
00:12:44Nemulțumește lumea pentru că nu mai trebuie să facă
00:12:47ei sfară și fum în apartament să coacă vinetele sau
00:12:51capia copt, le cumpără direct de la noi. și
00:12:55s foarte mulțumiți că au gustul de acasă din
00:13:00la bunici.
00:13:41Brycoop is one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in
00:13:45Romania, the total area cultivated by the members of this
00:13:49associative form, exceeding 13,000 hectares. The large
00:13:51agricultural cooperative based
00:13:55in Brăila County decided to start a project commensurate
00:13:58with its size, an immense storage space currently
00:14:02under construction. Mr.
00:14:05Mocanu, you insisted, you invited us to come here,
00:14:09to see, I call it, a mega-project
00:14:12of the Brycop Agricultural Cooperative. You are
00:14:15a member of this cooperative and you insisted
00:14:18that we come here to see a project implemented with
00:14:22European funds, a large. storage
00:14:25and conditioning space for seeds,
00:14:28that's what I know so far, I would ask you to give us more details,
00:14:32the project has two components, storage
00:14:35spaces and two halls for
00:14:38seed processing, these two parts help
00:14:41us a lot on the farm, because they
00:14:45greatly facilitate logistics. What does
00:14:48logistics mean? for those who want to store, they will have
00:14:51the opportunity to store at the cooperative.
00:14:55and sell their goods in the period they wish.
00:14:59The other component of seed production
00:15:02helps,
00:15:04helps the farmer to know exactly the quality
00:15:08of the seed and
00:15:12how should I say, the added value that we paid to someone else now remains
00:15:16with us in the cooperative and allows us to
00:15:19develop. The warehouse for cereals and
00:15:23oilseeds of the Agricultural Cooperative, a unit
00:15:26still under construction, is located in
00:15:29Baldovinești commune. The exact name of the project
00:15:32largely financed by European funds, is
00:15:36establishment of storage and conditioning facilities for
00:15:39agricultural products, fences and utility access.
00:15:43The constructions are very advanced, the project
00:15:46is going very well, we say,
00:15:50now we'll see what else will happen. Are there delays in
00:15:53the project implementation? There are no delays, in fact
00:15:57we are very, very on track. The money comes, no, it's from the European
00:16:00Union. Is the project affected by government
00:16:04decisions regarding the stopping of some internal funds?
00:16:07The financial situation is very clear, acceptance reports are made,
00:16:11acceptance reports of the works,
00:16:14payment situations, are submitted to AFIR, the money is waited
00:16:17for, it is collected, no, there are no problems on this
00:16:20side. The farmers of the Braicop
00:16:24agricultural cooperative in Brăila county cultivate cereals and
00:16:28oilseeds on large areas, predominantly. The flow
00:16:31of seeds during harvesting from the field to
00:16:35the storage facilities on farms. or directly to the port
00:16:38of Constanta, is impressive. What types
00:16:42of seeds will be stored and conditioned
00:16:45here? Primarily now we would have liked to process
00:16:48the wheat and barley seeds for this campaign, but
00:16:51I don't know if we will succeed as we wanted,
00:16:55but our station will produce
00:16:58all the necessary seeds for
00:17:02the farm, from corn, sunflower, soy, wheat and
00:17:06barley. A... farmer member of
00:17:09the Bry Cop Cooperative is
00:17:12obliged, is conditioned by a contract to store here or
00:17:16is it a free choice? No, no,
00:17:19the farmer, member of Braicop only has the obligation to sell
00:17:2375% of the goods through Braicop, that is,
00:17:27not at Braicop and the storage
00:17:30part belongs to the decision of each one who
00:17:34can, who cannot, each one as... as
00:17:38they wish and as it suits them, practically it depends on money, that is, if you have
00:17:42money, you keep it, if you don't have money, you don't keep it, but it's not a rule now that if
00:17:45you keep it and it grows or decreases
00:17:48or, everything, everything is a
00:17:51risk. The topic of crop
00:17:54storage is still debated in the agricultural sector.
00:17:57The war started by Russia against Ukraine on
00:18:00February 24, 2022 and more
00:18:03recently the geopolitical crisis in the Middle East, have turned
00:18:07old habits of the agricultural market upside down. Long-term
00:18:11storage of production in storage facilities has
00:18:14proven to be a losing option in certain periods,
00:18:17due to price volatility. Instead of selling
00:18:20more expensively as they expected, farmers helplessly watched
00:18:24cereal prices collapse, as happened in
00:18:28the fateful commercial year 2022,
00:18:312023. The approach to storage has
00:18:35changed a bit precisely because of
00:18:38market volatility. There is a tendency for the farmer
00:18:41to try to sell his crop from the field or based on
00:18:44futures contracts or we
00:18:48still have proof here, storage remains
00:18:50essential in the relationship with the market, what does
00:18:54the Romanian farmer do? if we look at the last 10
00:18:58years, in the last 10 years
00:19:01the trend was to store the goods because
00:19:04you were sure of an increase of 10, 15, in
00:19:08some cases 20%, which in the last three years has
00:19:12not happened, in fact, whoever sold futures
00:19:16or at harvest, I don't know if they
00:19:18got more, but at least the same price as those who stored for
00:19:22a year, with high costs, of aeration,
00:19:25gassing, conditioning, what else is done to
00:19:29the goods, that is, if it will
00:19:32end or not, no one knows, everyone relies
00:19:35on...
00:19:39What he thinks, no, no, you can't rely on
00:19:42anything, no, no, it's not known, it's not known if
00:19:45the market will calm down, you see new wars are appearing,
00:19:49which leads to market disruptions
00:19:52and very high volatility, especially for
00:19:56legumes, and then there is, there is a risk
00:19:59that a mega warehouse will remain empty, because the cooperative
00:20:03farmer sold his goods from the field, risks will
00:20:07always exist, we also make acquisitions
00:20:09of cereals,
00:20:13trading, that is
00:20:16there will be turnover, there will be turnover, whether it will be third-party goods or
00:20:20those of cooperative members, that remains to be seen,
00:20:23but in a normal situation, in a
00:20:26normal climate, at least a part
00:20:29of, a part of the production
00:20:33you have to keep it, that is,
00:20:36a large one or maybe... the largest agricultural cooperative in Romania, it's good to also
00:20:40have a large storage space, it's mandatory,
00:20:43it's very good, you can imagine with the help
00:20:46of European funds, because without these we wouldn't be talking
00:20:50now, how can it not be good, but everything has very, very
00:20:54high costs,
00:21:16a farmer who will store here, what costs will
00:21:20he have? How much will the cooperative charge him per kilogram, per
00:21:23ton, for the usual costs and
00:21:27those of the equipment because we also have a project on DR12 for
00:21:30equipment, they are only for
00:21:34bank expenses, salary expenses, maintenance
00:21:37expenses and expenses
00:21:41with that's about it, in fact, it will be the same for
00:21:45the storage part and a small profit for the cooperative which is actually
00:21:48normal to be like that, it will be the same for
00:21:52the storage part, that is, members will only be charged the
00:21:56maintenance fees
00:21:59and a small symbolic profit that must remain with the cooperative because that's what
00:22:03the bank requires from us, the financial statements require us, you can't
00:22:06work for nothing. Well, if I am
00:22:09a farmer, a member of the cooperative like you, is it still worth it to consider
00:22:13having my own storage space, when here the
00:22:16cooperative provides me with space here, should I
00:22:20still bother with my silo or do I have space at
00:22:23the cooperative, how do you see it economically speaking, first of all and if
00:22:27it wasn't, if it wasn't
00:22:30for this investment here, no normal farmer cannot and
00:22:33given the dimensions of our farmers cannot
00:22:36make this storage space
00:22:39alone because it is very, very expensive, that is
00:22:43it is impossible,
00:22:45the discussion is not, no, but I'm saying not even a small space on my farm
00:22:49is worth it anymore.
00:22:52a small buffer space on the farm is always welcome, because
00:22:56blockages appear, they appear on the route, as it was with those
00:22:59heatwaves, restrictions appear
00:23:02on transport, that is,
00:23:06help you, but a real storage space like this
00:23:09we cannot, but first of all it's not worth it and
00:23:13secondly it's impossible to do.
00:23:16Seed conditioning is the other important
00:23:19component of the activity carried out in a storage space.
00:23:23This sequential operation ensures
00:23:26the preparation of seeds for the establishment of agricultural
00:23:29crops. Well, let's focus a bit on conditioning.
00:23:33I understand storage, conditioning. What exactly does
00:23:36conditioning mean? So, practically we
00:23:39take the goods from the field, we
00:23:43bring them to the hall and they come out in
00:23:46bags directly for sowing. That is, they
00:23:50are sorted, treated,
00:23:52bagged,
00:23:55that is, all that remains is to sow, you
00:23:58pick up the desired amount of seed and go to
00:24:02the field. We are talking about goods with genetic value, about
00:24:05inputs, seeds, yes, in
00:24:09this case I told you this year, the wheat and barley that we want to
00:24:12process, and then the farmer will come here and buy
00:24:16the necessary quantity and will not go anywhere else but to...
00:24:20So he will take his bags of seeds and go directly to the field to sow.
00:24:37The final deadline? We want it to be ready
00:24:41by the end of 2027 , for all the
00:24:44work to be accepted.
00:24:47The total eligible value of the project is
00:24:5010,767,82
00:24:53€. Of this amount, almost 7 million
00:24:57euros represent non-reimbursable funding from the
00:25:00European Union. Does the European Union help Romanian
00:25:03agriculture? Very much from my point of view, without these
00:25:07European funds we could not develop. Some people on TikTok ask, what does
00:25:11the EU do for us? You know,
00:25:14no, no, everyone can ask anything. It has
00:25:18developed us a lot.
00:25:37Thank you very much, we conclude the discussion about the warehouse here,
00:25:41two words about the agricultural season
00:25:432025/2026 on the Mocanu farm in
00:25:47Brăila. Are you already drawing the line for wheat? The
00:25:502025- 2026 season was a
00:25:53good one, not very good, but not bad either, we are in
00:25:57full swing, we have not drawn any lines yet, we have
00:26:01no exceptional personal results,
00:26:04no bad results, we hope to pay off our debts and
00:26:06to be able to start the new campaign
00:26:10which will not take long to
00:26:12sow. When I conducted this interview in Brăila
00:26:16county, the sunflower was displaying its beauty and promising
00:26:20harvests beyond expectations in numerous farms. It is
00:26:23a good year for sunflowers. I saw sunflower
00:26:26fields, well, they looked good. At first glance
00:26:30it seems so, there are rainy areas. there are areas that have not been
00:26:33rained on, there are areas that have suffered
00:26:35disasters, usually if
00:26:39it starts well it is possible to end well too, the important thing is that it
00:26:43started well, we will see, it's not much left for the sunflower
00:26:47harvesting campaign either, we are in almost the middle
00:26:50of July, in a month, a month and a half, usually
00:26:54usually harvesting begins and we will see, all
00:26:58in all we have premises, good
00:27:00premises and a new one will begin? "I wish you success now with
00:27:04the harvest, I wish you success with the launch, to everyone, to everyone
00:27:08to harvest what they have in the field. With
00:27:11the help of European funds, the Brycob cooperative in Brăila
00:27:15county is building a warehouse for storing and conditioning
00:27:19seeds harvested from the over 13,000 hectares
00:27:22cultivated by the 60 farmer members of this
00:27:26associative structure. money from Brussels and storage
00:27:30facilities are key solutions for development. Romanian agriculture.
00:27:54It can be said that this summer cherries were the stars of the
00:27:57season. The orchards were full of fruit, to the delight
00:28:01of both farmers and
00:28:03consumers.
00:28:08Unfortunately, not all consumers were
00:28:11well-off.
00:28:15For example, crows and magpies destroyed a
00:28:18large part of the harvest of an orchard in Năvodari,
00:28:21Constanța
00:28:22county.
00:28:29In addition, it is also an organic cherry
00:28:32orchard, in which the owner invested a lot,
00:28:36the plantation being made from own funds.
00:28:49When did you start this business and why a cherry
00:28:53orchard? In 2020
00:28:56I established the plantation, it is an area
00:29:00of 4.95 hectares.
00:29:04Being a horticulturist
00:29:06by profession, I went with the idea of doing something
00:29:10in my free time, an activity that
00:29:13I could manage and
00:29:16to know
00:29:19the details regarding the species
00:29:22and the plantation and the activity,
00:29:25so in 2020 I established the plantation. It was a very
00:29:29difficult year, if we all remember, it was one of the
00:29:33driest years recorded,
00:29:35later we had many losses,
00:29:39I didn't have the irrigation system, I struggled
00:29:42a bit at the beginning,
00:29:44so I established the plantation, did
00:29:47you establish the plantation with your own funds or
00:29:51yes, so the whole plantation and everything I
00:29:55did here is made from
00:29:58personal resources, from personal resources, how much did the land
00:30:02part cost you? It was bought a long time
00:30:05ago, as for just the planting
00:30:09material, the irrigation system and fencing and so
00:30:12on, somewhere around 1000 euros
00:30:16per hectare, I estimate, so to speak, so about
00:30:195000, let's say about 5000 with machinery and so
00:30:23on, but we are talking about this money accumulated
00:30:27over the course of years, what varieties
00:30:30of cherries do you have? I tried
00:30:33to make a
00:30:36fairly wide variety of cultivars to be able to
00:30:40harvest for a month considering
00:30:44that
00:30:46in our area there is a deficiency with the workforce.