The top three cattle farmers in Romania are Karpaten Meat in Sibiu, Pajo Holding in Prahova and Maria Trading in Calarasi, which collected RON4.4 million subsidies in 2019 or half of the amount the government allocated to the top ten cattle farmers.
Seven of the top ten cattle farmers are foreign held; Pajo Holding, Agricol Carm Invest and Lacto Agrar are the only ones fully Romanian owned.
About 75% of the RON8.8 million subsidies or RON6.6 million went to the foreign companies, according to ZF’s calculations. The rest of the money, RON2.1 million went to Romanian companies.(EUR1=RON4.7790)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)