“A new era for Greece”, said the Minister of Rural Development and Food, Giorgos Georgandas
The European Commission approved today 13.4 billion euros to be allocated from the EU budget for Greece’s strategic plan, within the framework of Common Agricultural Policy (2023-2027).
According to the Commission, Greece’s CAP plan for the period 2023-2027 will improve the viability of small and medium-sized farms, which represent the backbone of Greek agriculture. This will be done with the help of targeted income support and an additional redistributive payment. The Greek plan also aims to reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture and to manage natural resources more effectively.
From the total EU budget for Greece, more than 3.6 billion euros will be allocated to environmental and climate goals and ecological systems and €730 million for young farmers.
The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which will start on 1 January 2023, is designed to shape the transition to a sustainable, resilient and modern European agricultural sector. The CAP will benefit from €270 billion in funding for the period 2023-2027.
Georgantas: A new era for Greece
The Minister of Rural Development and Food, Giorgos Georgantas, described the official approval by the European Commission of our country’s strategic plan for the new Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027 as a new era for Greece.
“The approval of our country’s Strategic Plan for the new CAP constitutes a significant success, sealing a great effort led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself, who with his personal intervention secured the resources of 19.3 billion euros for the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027, at the same time defining the financial framework for the new programming period 2023-2027” he said.
In his statement, the minister underlined that the approval of the Strategic Plan “signals a new period of important reforms and changes for our primary sector and our rural areas, given the serious and major challenges they have to face”.
The purpose, as he said, is to integrate “in a balanced way the objectives of the new CAP for economic, environmental and social sustainability, and indeed for the first time through a single approach, which provides for the joint contribution of its two pillars, both Pillar I of direct aid, as well as Pillar II of investments, in achieving specific priorities with measurable results”.
Speaking about the challenges facing the primary sector, Mr. Georgantas pointed out that the most important of them is the “successful implementation of our Strategic Plan” as, as he said, “it will give even greater perspective and value to our quality agricultural products, protect our valuable natural resources and the rich biodiversity of our rural areas by promoting organic production methods with 1.4 billion euros, will stimulate the social cohesion of the Greek countryside by creating more than 70,000 new jobs and will shape more attractive living conditions in the Greek region contributing to the age renewal of our primary sector with more than 65,000 young farmers in total, benefiting from the support of the new CAP”.
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