Success Stories
Success history – Andrei Cazacu – s. Prajila – Agricultural Utilities
By working, perseverance and ambition, remarkable results can be achieved in business. Andrei Cazacu, a 34-year farmer in the Prajila raion, is a prime example of this. In 2018, together with its mother, who returned home after 13 years worked abroad, the boat started a business in agriculture and began to cultivate cereals and vegetables.
In 2018, when it was in the beginning of the way, the young entrepreneur benefited from his first State grant. It amounted to RON 250 thousand under the PARE 1+ 1 programme for diaspora. Due to non-repayable support, but also with the money it obtained abroad, the boat purchased its first tractor, a grower and a sewer in order to be able to process legacy earths from good.
The successes it gained in the first year of business management motivated it to work even more to develop its agricultural enterprise. It was strongly and managed to occupy four further grants in the following years – in 2019, 2021 and 2024.
In total, over 6 years, the man benefited from the PARE and Digital Transformation programmes, managed by ODA, over lei 1.3 million invested in the procurement of agricultural machinery, two combination for harvesting cereals and morcov, and GPS systems for tractors.
At present, Andrei Cazacu administers 500 hectares of agricultural land in the Prajila and Modriculești villages, and the basic activity is the cultivation of vegetables. Its products are traded in a large network of shops in the country, but a part reaches supermarket rafts in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine.
Thanks to State support but also the perseverity that it has shown throughout its work, Andrei Cazacu has become a leader of its community, managing to create tens of jobs and putting the urea not only into the development of the natality but also of the national economy.
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