Programme: Rural Development Programme

"Zelenchukov Rai - Stefanovi" Ltd. is a farmer's company with main activity aimed at the production of essential oil and field - vegetable crops. Within the common European market, the company is engaged in the production of lavender, lemon balm, pepper and onion. The agricultural products produced by the applicant are traded on the specialized vegetable markets and exchanges for essential oil, as the price levels of sales are directly determined by the price - quality ratio. It is therefore essential to achieve the production of a high quality agricultural product at a low cost of production, enabling high competitiveness to be achieved on the Community market. With the purchase of agricultural machinery 4 trailers for production transportation, cultivator and other tractor attachments (seedling machine, onion turning machine, onion pulling out machine and automatic harvesting machine - loading), which will automate the production of onions, aims to ensure the independence of the activity on the maintenance and processing of the plantations. In addition, a number of investments will be made in irrigation - construction of drip irrigation for growing pepper, as well as the purchase of 4 pcs. pipe-roller irrigation systems - 3 pcs. for irrigation of vegetables and 1 pc. for essential oil crops. Proposed for funding are also a receiver, 8 pcs. different antennas and 2 pcs. autopilot in order to digitize the applicant's agriculture. The implementation of the project will increase the competitiveness of the applicant through the production of high quality agricultural products at low cost, with implemented tillage protecting the components of agro ecosystems and reducing the effect of anthropogenic impact on them. For the purposes of the project, all forecast data from the first to the fifth year are developed on the processing of 160 decares of field pepper, 200 decares of onions and 160 decares of balm.