Diversification

CAP funds in Czechia support organic family farm diversification into goat cheese.

Setting up a milk collection and processing plant to create added value and enable the farm to diversify its products and respond better to consumers’ needs.  

A farm used Rural Development Programme (RDP) support to produce horse manure pellets that can be used as an organic fertiliser as well as a source of renewable energy.

Green Care projects on family farms offer social services close to home in rural areas. They increase the quality of life for people, secure and create jobs while also helping to preserve small-scale agriculture and forestry.  

Female entrepreneurs used RDP investment support to increase the production capacity of their juniper syrup-producing business.

A well-established food processor used investment support from the Estonian RDP to expand the range of baby food products it offers and thus maintain its dynamic growth. 

Organising conferences, workshops and a culinary contest in order to promote the sustainable development of rural areas, along with and the personal development of participating rural citizens.

A family farm converted to organic lavender farming in order to diversify their offer of products and services in an environmentally sustainable way.

A company offering agricultural services to farmers used RDP support to acquire a new combine harvester and a nitrogen testing equipment which regulates the amount of fertiliser applied across the entire crop. 

In response to increasing demand for wood fuel, a wood processing company in Greece, used support from the LEADER measure to set up a new pellet production line.