Romania has set a target of switching to certified organic areas of only 5.5% by 2030, which is extremely small, although it could have chosen a target of 10-11%, say representatives of the Interprofessional Organization for Organic Products – Inter-Bio.

They have analyzed the proposals in the National Plan for Organic Farming and consider that “we do not want to go beyond the last in queue in Europe. “We set a target for ecologically certified areas of only 5.5% by 2030, which is extremely low, fearing to commit more,” it is mentioned in a release of the organization, according to Agerpres.

The president of Inter-Bio, Costin Lianu, specifies that in order to achieve a target of transition to ecologically certified areas of 10-11%, clear fiscal facilities and other incentives should be provided to support the development of missing links in the system.

“The European policies outlined in the strategy involve alignment with European targets. Studies by European Commission partners in European policies, namely IFOAM.EU, have recently assessed the potential for alignment in concrete terms. In this assessment, Romania, as well as Poland, have a low level of adoption but a much higher potential if properly supported in practice. So it should set the target at a minimum of 10-11%, but to be achievable it would need clear fiscal facilities and other incentives to support the development of missing links, such as processing and capitalization in domestic and foreign markets. We need a market in this sector to develop together, producers, processors, opinion leaders, consumers, authorities,” said Costin Lianu, president of Inter-Bio.