About 1,500 farmers of Moldova to receive diesel oil as humanitarian assistance

Chisinau, 2 January /MOLDPRES/ - The Agriculture and Food Industry Ministry (MAIA) today informed that the Agency of Intervention and Payments for Agriculture (AIPA) had received 1,546 applications on asking for external humanitarian assistance provided by Romania, meant for backing the farmers hit by the 2022 year drought. Fifty six out of all files submitted were turned down, as they did not meet the criteria of eligibility established according to the normative framework. Thus, diesel oil will be provided to 1,490 farmers as humanitarian assistance.  

According to data unveiled by farmers, the area of farmlands hit by drought is of 193,584.13 thousand hectares, following the enforcement of the coefficient of categorizing of farmers and the eligible area is of  114,207.98 thousand hectares. The average quantum of diesel per one hectare is of 35.01 kg.   

„In 24 November 2023, AIPA addressed to the Labour and Social Protection Ministry to summon the inter-departmental commission for humanitarian assistance and as result, on 18 December 2023, the commission approved the list, as well as the calculation of distribution of the external humanitarian aid. The distribution of the humanitarian assistance to farmers will be provided by the Interior Ministry’s Material Reserves Agency,’’ the Agriculture Ministry said.  

The micro and small farmers, as well as the public institutions which own and exploit farmlands with areas up to 1,500 hectares, sowed with phyto-technical crops for the 2022 year harvest and were hit by drought are eligible for getting the humanitarian assistance.