Alliance for Agriculture and Cooperation: Romania to play key role in increasing EU's grain supply

Romania is currently the member state that can play a decisive role in increasing the supply of grains and vegetal protein of the European Union (EU), but for this it needs a reasonable flexibility in the application of greening conditions on access to technologies and tools for innovation in agriculture, as well as short- and medium-term measures to ensure access to agricultural inputs, according to representatives of the Alliance for Agriculture and Cooperation, who paid a working visit to Brussels.

According to a press release issued by AGERPRES on Wednesday, the focus of the talks in the Belgian capital focused on the context of the crisis caused by the Russian-Ukrainian war, the measures needed to ensure food security and safety by relaxing the provisions of the new Common Agricultural Policy.

At the end of the working visit in Brussels, the Alliance announced that it would undertake, with the support of the COPA - COGECA team, all the necessary steps to make known the needs of the Romanian farmers, at the level of the European political decision makers; Romania's agricultural potential cannot be neglected, especially at this time.

The four professional organizations in agriculture, food industry and related services, informally brought together in the Alliance for Agriculture and Cooperation, total about 3,500 farmers working a total area of 2.5 million hectares, plus 1.5 million hectares.

The alliance also includes members who work in the food industry and have a turnover of 24.2%, respectively 15.95% employees in the total Romanian agri-food sector.