The improvement and development of the infrastructures in the agricultural and forest areas constitutes object of a specific measure of the operational program that is going to orientate the public investments to be supported by the European Union in the Azores up to 2013, the PRORURAL.
The rules of functioning of this measure, which contemplates interventions in the powers of the agricultural and rural ways, water supply and energy supply to the explorations, agrarian planning and agrarian structuring and support infrastructures to the forest activity, consist of a decree of the Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and Forestry published today.
In the terms of the diploma, the public financing to undertakings in these areas approved by the PRORURAL will be able to cover the totality of the expenses, being that the European Union will assume 85 percent of the value of the responsibilities.
The measure now opened by the operational program for the agriculture in the Region aims at contributing to the increase of the competitiveness of the Azorean agrarian-forest sector through the restructuring and planning of the rural space through the modernization of the available infrastructures.
It also foresees financing for the introduction in the Azores of a mass production centre of forest sorts.