President Nicusor Dan on Thursday stated that Romania is not using its current agricultural potential and that a long-term strategy is needed in this area.

Nicusor Dan participated in the National Forum for the Future of Agriculture, organized by the Romanian Farmers Club.

„I appreciate the fact that you somehow got ahead of the state and are doing things for your community that the state should normally do, such as these training courses. I believe very much in a partnership between the state and various areas of competence, such as your club. I very much welcome this type of event, in which you come and propose a strategy to the state. This strategy must be integrated, on the one hand, with the national budget, so we must finally think long-term, correlate what you propose with the national budget and not for 2026, but for a sufficient number of years to have predictability and also with the debates that will begin on the Common Agricultural Policy. It is a dialogue that we must have, so that we can manage to create together a strategy that has measures, staggered financing plans, and deadlines for achievement, a true, realistic strategy that will lead us to the objectives that we know,” said the head state.

He specified that the main objective is to use the agricultural potential that Romania has and which is not being used at the moment.

„We need some loan systems for your economic area, which are specific, we need specific insurance systems or risk management, we need the state to invest in irrigation systems or water management. (…) Obviously, we need digitalisation, but more than that, the state is responsible for the entire research area around agriculture, including digitalisation and following some debates that we will have, there is a legislative framework that awaits changes, such as the lease law or the land consolidation law. (…) I expect that together with the new government we will discuss that strategy for many years with budgets, with objectives, with precise deadlines so that we can make Romanian agriculture what it can be,” concluded the head of state.

AGERPRES