Only for a week (27.06.-01.07.) since the beginning of application acceptance under the “de minimis” scheme more than 5,400 applications for assistance were received in theRegional Directorates of State Fund "Agriculture". “De minimis” program is oriented to support farmers to feed their animals. Financial resource is provided to farmers who keep cows, buffaloes, sheep and goat-mothers. They can submit their applications till July 15, 2011. Documents are accepted in all Regional Directorates of the SFA.
Financial resource approved under the de minimis amounts to BGN 20 million. The subsidy is granted to individuals, sole proprietors and legal persons duly registered under the Ordinance to Establish and Maintain a Farmers' Register for 2011.
Any farmer who meets the conditions of de minimis program, can receive funding up to the equivalent of 7500 euros for the last three fiscal years (2009-2011).
The deadline for the negotiation of funds is July 25, 2011 to August 4, 2011, and the final date for payment is August 12, 2011.