Moldovan agriculture ministry starts paying debts in subsidies for 2015

18:15 | 29.03.2016 Category: Economic

Chisinau, 29 March /MOLDPRES/ - The Agriculture and Food Industry Ministry (MAIA) today informed that it had started the payment of debts in subsidies for 2015.

According to the Agency of Interventions and Payment for Agriculture (AIPA), an institution subordinated to MAIA, about 250 farmers have received the arrears to subsidies worth about five million lei.

“The Subsidization Fund for 2015 amounted to 610 million lei, of which debts from 2014 worth over 230 million lei had been paid off to 2,350 beneficiaries,” an AIPA press release says.

Also, during the last year, 4,051 files worth more than 540 million lei were submitted to AIPA. Another 3,395 files still remain for payment.

The payment of arrears in subsidies to farmers was one of the cabinet’s priorities for the first 100 days.

(Reporter P. Beregoi, editor M. Jantovan)

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