Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
agriculture can be delivered only for the organically certified and declarated agriculture area.
Therefore, all owners of the organic farms must be registered and should contain certificate
obtained from the organic agriculture certification body "Ekoagros". The exact level of support
payoff varies for each organic farmer and is calculated individually depending on growing
crops (Table 6). Separate organic farm can obtain maximal support of 400 thousand litas.
During 2007-2013 farmers participating in "Rural development programme" implement
"Agrarian environmental protection payoff" programme "Organic agriculture" submitted 12
859 applications with requests of 505.5 million litas payoff. According to "Organic agriculture"
programme during 2013 there were submited 2566 applications with request of 118 million
litas payoff.
Crop
Payout, ** Lt ha
-1
Cereals
742
Vegetables and potatoes
1519
Medicinal herbs
1688
Small-fruit plants and orchards
1781
Perennial grasses and meadows*
438
Note. *-subsidies are paid only if there is certified organic livestock on farm; **-1 Lt=0.290 €; 1 €=3.4528 Lt.
Table 6.
Support for organic agriculture according to the type of crop (Lt ha
-1
)
To enhance marketable organic farming is foreseen compulsory realization of organic pro‐
duction (Table 7). Realization of organic production should be validated by actual documents.
Only then financial support is delivered for organic farm in form of subsidies. The request to
present documents of production realization is not applicable for farms keeping livestock and
declarating just pastures and meadows, annual and perennial grasses. As well documents for
production realization are not requested for cereals on farm applying proportion 1 LSU
(Livestock Standard Unit) per 3 hectares. Subsidies are paid in two stages: 50% of subsidy are
paid after evaluation of applications and rest 50% of subsidy are paid after delivered docu‐
ments of organic production realization. For the new orchards and small-fruit perennial
plantations in the first year there are paid 100% of subsidy.
Owners of Lithuanian organic farms can apply for subsidy if:
•
they are applicable subjects, i.e. farmers, agricultural company or cooperative;
•
have registered agricultural holding in the register of agriculture and rural business of
Republic of Lithuania;
•
joint agricultural and other area applicable for subsidy by the programme “Organic
agriculture” are no less than 1 hectare;
•
separate field plot for subsidy is no less than 0.1 hectare.
