Small farms are still the backbone of many Member States’ rural economies, despite the efforts made over the 20th century to turn agriculture to more industrial and hoped for a more effective production structure, upscaling the environmental load of the sector to global crisis.
Meanwhile the traditional agribusiness of family farms survived in many countries and providing divers and considerable good quality products in a more circular management system, which is the traditional mixed farming management systems of the region.
In that context, a new micro-finance scheme in Romania using InvestEU for available translations of the preceding is helping to develop this key part of the EU’s agri-food sector.
https://eu-cap-network.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/small-farms-romanian-micro-finance-support-investeu-2022-10-25_en

InvestEU: https://enrd.ec.europa.eu/publications/investeu-offers-improved-investment-choices-cap-managing-authorities_en