“In 2013, preliminary calculations show the European surface payment per hectare will be around EUR139. We will negotiate the package covered from the state budget with the Finance Ministry these days,” said Constantin.
The minister added it is important for Romania’s aid package to be close to the upper limit both for surface payments and animal husbandry payments. He said he is trying to explain to the Finance Ministry that in 2014 it may assign 100% of what was assigned in 2013, and in 2015 financing could be lowered to 75% of the 2013 level.
Surface payments are funded by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, the, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development,a dn the state budget, via the Ministry of Agriculture.