Moldovan PM says government to back farmers bringing added value to Moldova's development

Chisinau, 11 April /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip today visited several agricultural enterprises from the central Criuleni district. At a working visit to the Porumbeni Phyto-technology Institute, the prime minister had a meeting with researchers and employees of the enterprise. Filip congratulated them on their achievements, especially for the fact that three maize hybrids, got by Institute’s specialists, had been recorded in the State Register of Romania, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.     

“This is a success of Institute’s specialists and I want to believe that you will continue also with other initiatives and researches, due to result in the promotion of products made in Moldova. This will allows is promoting and selling the three varieties of maize in the European Union space,” Pavel Filip said.      

The prime minister stressed that agriculture represented a priority for the government. “The Agriculture Ministry is the country’s Ministry. We back the excellence centres and the initiatives which, by the achieved results, can become examples to be followed for other research institutions from Moldova. We will support the institutions and enterprises with tradition from Moldova, as namely they make the country more competitive,” the prime minister said. 

At the meeting with the Porumbeni Institute’s specialists, the sides exchanged opinions on problems and challenges faced by researchers from the agricultural sector, as well as on their settlement. 

The prime minister also visited the first and biggest factory of biomass pellets from Moldova, constructed within a project with financing on behalf of the Japanese government. The factory has a production capacity of about 4,000 tons of pellets annually and can provide heating to 25 kindergartens and schools, endowed with special boilers from money provided by Japanese partners as well.   

Also today, the PM went to the Onitcani village, Criuleni district, where he took knowledge of the work of the greenhouses of one of the biggest vegetables producers from Moldova, Agromaxer Ltd. The enterprise managed to do a profitable business in the agriculture sector, by using modern technologies, with the support of foreign partners. Within the dialogue, the prime minister said that “the agriculture of the future is one based on advanced technologies, due to generate added value.” Filip stressed that the government he led would back namely these farmers.       

The prime minister tasted vegetables harvested at the aforementioned enterprise and made an appeal to the Moldovan citizens to consume local goods, which are ecologically safe, tasty and thus support the native producers. 

The PM noted that the cabinet was determined to back the farmers, both by support policies, access to loans, direct import of diesel, negotiating grants with foreign partners, and through creating a more attractive business environment for those willing to invest in Moldova’s economy.   

(Editor M. Jantovan)