Representatives of farmers’ organizations in no way diminish the usefulness of financing the mentioned tasks at the expense of European soft loans and, even more so, grants. None of them denies the fact that fruit growing in the absence of modern irrigation methods and systems is actually a guaranteed shortage or even loss of yields. Even in field farming – i.e., production of such moisture-loving crops as sugar beet, corn, soybean, etc. – irrigation under conditions of radical changes in irrigation methods and systems is virtually guaranteed. – irrigation under conditions of radical climate change is becoming the “new normal”. Experts also agree that windbreaks are an important factor in mitigating droughts. It has also been said for many years that normal country roads make it much easier to deliver machinery to farmlands and carefully remove crops from them.
At the same time, along with these measures, Moldovan agrarians hope for preferential financing from donor resources for other very important tasks of agriculture in Moldova. For example, the most frequently mentioned is the financing of the process of transition from the classical farming system to resource-saving agro-technologies – “mini-till”, “no-till” and others. Farmers also hope for assistance in popularizing and increasing commercial interest in the production of such drought-resistant crops as sorghum and cover crops-siderates. And at the system level, in the form of a documented agricultural policy of the government.
Earlier, Logos Press reported that the Forța Fermierilor Association strongly criticized the Moldovan Government’s choice of priorities for the agricultural sector, which were selected for inclusion in the Growth Plan for 2025-2027.
In this context, the former chairman of Forța Fermierilor, Alexandru Slusari, said that the advantage of the candidate status is that the country has ample opportunities for dialogue and access to specialized European funds for friendly countries to carry out structural reforms. At the same time, the governments of the candidate countries are freer to choose the priorities and content of these reforms and experience less pressure from the European bureaucracy than the EU member states. This advantage is worth taking advantage of.
