Biggest cattle owner in Romania has 3,086 cows
Italian, Greek, Jewish, French, Dutch, Cypriot and Lebanese
investors control half of the 20 companies with the highest number
of cattle in Romania.
The biggest owner is Primo Cezar company of Brasov, which last year
had over 3,000 head, according to the Agency for Payments and
Intervention in Agriculture (APIA).
Primo Cezar has 24 employees and reached 5.8m-euro turnover in
2009, posting 200,000-euro gross income, according to the latest
Finance Ministry data. The firm is owned in partnership by Cezar
Manuel Florescu and Dutch-born businessman Dirk-Jente Lickle
Kuipers.
Last year, cattle owners received subsidies worth around 115m
euros, for 1.2 million cattle. Primo Cezar firm, the biggest owner,
is also the biggest subsidy beneficiary, getting over 300,000 euros
from the state last year.
Cezar Florescu, Primo Cezar owner, says he focused on foreign
markets as prices are better than in Romania and payments are made
faster.
Smaller farms deliver beef to the domestic market.