Rural Development Programmes Approved

The EU Commission has completed the adoption of all 118 Rural Development Programmes.  EU rural aid funding totals €99.6bn for 2014-2020 with an additional €60.6bn of national Governemnt co-funding.  Under the programmes aid will go to an estimated 170,000 young farmers, 60,000 rural entrepreneurs and support almost 4 million places on training courses.