PDR opens applications from November 15

Applications to mainland Rural Development Programme for 2014-2020 (PDR 2020, which will replace the Proder) will be open from 15 November. Assumption ridges, Minister of Agriculture, made this announcement on September 12, at the fair Agroglobal - and had done earlier that day, in the "cadre school" of the CDS-PP. Although not yet know when the RDP will be approved, the minister said that the Portuguese proposal has about 400 comments - "below average, which is about 500 ', underlined - to which the Ministry is already answer.

As for the Proder, Asuncion Ridges said the program already has a degree of implementation of 88%, and is expected to reach 92% by the end of 2014. The minister also pointed out that ' willingness to invest there '(' we have 8,000 applications in the portfolio ') and the PDR in 2020 now has' 2% of enforcement' - in the transition period between programs negotiated with the European Union, applications were approved with the rules of proder and financed with RDP funds. Applications are 'paused' since 30 June, given the "avalanche" of 1,600 monthly applications and is under evaluation and will return to open.