Programme: Recovery and Resilience Plan

With a view to providing the necessary fodder for feeding the animals on the farm, the applicant grows the appropriate crops. Since the number of farmed animals requires the cultivation of large arable areas to provide the necessary fodder, as well as the maintenance of pastures in good agricultural and ecological condition, the applicant strives for greater production efficiency on the available areas. The investments proposed for financing are aimed at accelerating the adaptation of Valentin Georgiev's farm to climate changes and greening of production. The trench planter features the easily adjustable row spacing, which makes it possible to sow different crops with the same machine, expanding its application. With it, the candidate will be able to carry out sowing and fertilizing at the same time, thus achieving a higher yield with the same amount of fertilizer. Thanks to the hay picker, the product is moved only once, avoiding leaf loss and feed contamination. It will collect the hay from the pastures, as well as the plant residues after harvesting from the cultivated areas. Both assets will contribute to shortening the time and increasing the quality of the operations performed in the crop farm, and hence to increasing the quality of the produced fodder for feeding the animals. In order to increase the efficiency of work on the farm, the applicant intends to purchase a navigation system and autopilot, which will technologically upgrade the available wheeled tractor with a power of 160 hp. The trench planter and the hay picker will be aggregated to this tractor, resulting in the fulfillment of the condition of traceability, operations control, process management and/or data generation and exchange.