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Vegetables Processing Companies Study Tour in Bulgaria promoted by the AgBiz Program (USAID)

The Vegetables Processing Companies Study Tour in Bulgaria took place from 4-7 March ’09 in Sofia, Plovdiv and Stara Zagora. This activity was organized by AgBiz for Macedonian companies to increase their knowledge of the Bulgarian processed vegetables industry. Macedonian companies were able to learn from Bulgarian companies’ SAPARD experience, and assess their own competitiveness in supplying traditional processed vegetable products to EU and other markets based on what they learned from Bulgarian companies.

The four days Study Tour was organized and conducted with the aim of providing ten AgBiz customers with first hand information on Bulgarian experience in using EU SAPARD funds through 1) a series of meetings with the owners/managers of vegetable processing plants; 2) visiting modern vegetables processing plants, well equipped cold stores, and other production facilities that utilized SAPARD program funding, 3) meetings with representatives of the most successful consulting company-CIBOLA in Bulgaria that was responsible for preparing project applications for using SAPARD and other EU pre accession instruments and 4) meetings with the Management Board of the Bulgarian Union of F&V Processors.

The greatest benefit to participants was the opportunity to hold meetings and observe big Bulgarian processing plants with modern equipment. Participants obtained first hand information regarding the trends and achieved clear insights on how modern and functional businesses use EU funds.

Source: http://www.agbiz.com.mk/en/about/activities.html