Meta cluster for exporting breeding animals to new markets

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2024-03-26

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Description (EN):

Estonia, Latvia and Finland have good position in development of breeding animals export (both dairy and beef). For example Estonian dairy cattle is in TOP3 in Europe in milk production. In all countries there is a high competence and long experience in breeding. Bigger farms are actively working on improving livestock quality. Beef cattle breeding has developed really fast during last 10-15 years. Especially Latvia has good experience in export. Entering to new export markets would have a positive impact to the development of the dairy and beef cattle breeding sector in CB area. In dairy farming, an increasing number of exported heifers would give an additional income for local dairy farmers as well as it would promote the improvement of genetic basis in livestock. The main objective of BreedExpo project is to support agricultural producers from CB area, who are interested in exporting breeding animals, to enter into new markets- Kazahstan, Georgia and Ukraine. Farmers will be involved to the development of processes related to the export of breeding animals. Partners use cluster-based approach for cooperation between existing clusters- farmers organizations as project partners and national/sectoral breeding associations as main stakeholders responsible for organizing the sales of living animals in foreign markets. In total ca 40 agricultural producers will be involved to export activities. It is expected that by the end of the project or during one year after the project at least 1 sales transaction has been taken place in each target market. One sales transaction means that 100 or more animals from larger group of farmers have been bought by local intermediary organizations (breeding associations, farmers cooperatives or similar) and sold to target markets.

Achievements (EN):

BreedExpo helped agricultural producers enter new markets. The main objective of BreedExpo project was to support agricultural producers from CB area, who are interested in exporting breeding animals, to enter into new markets: Kazahstan, Georgia and Ukraine. Cooperation between farmers’ organisations and joint actions enabled to get more attention and higher interest in new target markets, and to optimize the costs of marketing activities. As CB markets and individual farms are quite small compared to selected target markets, it is quite difficult for individual farmers to make deals and get sales. Working together and making joint sales contracts allows to meet needs of big farms in Kazakhstan, Georgia or Ukraine. As a result of the project a strong cluster cooperation was established involving ca 600 farmers and 8 breeding and export companies and associations from project area. 36 farmers participated actively in export activities (contact visits to target markets, participation in agricultural exhibitions). Ca 100 farmers sold their cattle through local intermediary organisations to 3 selected target markets during project implementation period: 27 deliveries were organised to Georgia, 20 to Kazakhstan and 3 to Ukraine. The amount of the sales was ca 2,7 million euros. In total ca 1300 beef cattle and ca 870 dairy cattle were sold to target markets.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R1.3. Number of cluster co-operations exporting to new markets

Expected Outputs (EN):

The results of the project are: - a strong cluster cooperation involving farmers and breeding associations from Estonia, Latvia and South-West Finland. - a sustainable and commercially successful transnational cooperation between national/sectoral breeding associations and cooperatives from three countries. - strong cooperation networks in target markets, which will be used in the future for the benefit of a larger number of farmers from 3 countries. It is expected that by the end of the project or during 1 year after the project at least 1 sales transaction has been taken place in each target market. One sales transaction means that 100 or more animals from larger group of farmers are bought by local intermediary organizations (breeding associations, farmers cooperatives or similar) and sold to target markets.

Thematic information

Clustering and economic cooperation SME and entrepreneurship Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Specific Objective: More exports by the Central Baltic companies to new markets

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03d) supporting the capacity of SMEs to grow in regional, national and international markets, and to engage in innovation processes

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: Eesti Põllumajandus-Kaubanduskoda

Department: N/A

Address: Pärnu mnt 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.epkk.ee

Total budget: EUR 223 923.82

ERDF budget: EUR 182 273.99

Biedriba "Zemnieku saeima"

Name: Biedriba "Zemnieku saeima"

Department: N/A

Address: Republikas laukums 2-916, LV-1010 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.zemniekusaeima.lv

Total budget: EUR 229 910.00

ERDF budget: EUR 187 146.74

Maataloustuottajain Varsinais-Suomen liitto

Name: Maataloustuottajain Varsinais-Suomen liitto

Department: N/A

Address: Hintsantie 3, 21200 Raisio, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: https://www.mtk.fi/liitot/varsinaissuomi/fi_FI/etusivu/

Total budget: EUR 285 558.00

ERDF budget: EUR 214 168.50

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NGO "Farmers Parliament"

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Union of Agricultural Producers of South-West Finland

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Eesti Pollumajandus-Kaubanduskoda MTÜ

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Summary

Project name (EN): Meta cluster for exporting breeding animals to new markets

Project acronym: BreedExpo

Project start date: 2019-04-01

Project end date: 2022-01-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 739 391.82

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 583 589.23

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 583 589.23.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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