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Charles, Prince of Wales, voiced interest in projects of agriculture development in Bistrita-Nasaud county (north), this being one of the six counties included in the project called Carpathians initiated by the foundation of the heir to the British throne.

Adviser for Romania to Prince Charles, Jeremy Staniforth, appointed High Representative for Sustainable Development of the Romanian Government, had on Monday, July 13, a meeting with the prefect of Bistrita-Nasaud, Cristian Florian, administrator of the county Vasile Negruseri and other local decisions-makers for a first assessment of the local potential of the agriculture, The pilot-project called ‘Carpathians’ includes counties Bistrita-Nasaud, Maramures (north), Sibiu (centre), Covasna (centre) Brasov (centre) and Valcea (south) and will promote the organic agriculture, tourism, forestry, environment, financing and micro-credits, education, energy and preservation of cultural heritage of the Romanian villages.

‘Prince Charles is very interested in Romania. He loves to come here, he believes Romania is a beautiful country and in order to maintain the beauty of the rural area, we need agriculture.

We’ll focus on the maintenance of the population in the area, because people make up the rural area and in order to do this, we have to have a dynamic and positive economy in villages.

This is the criterion we used to select the counties,’ said advisor to Prince Charles, Jermey Staniforth.

According to the adviser on foreign relations with the Local Council of Bistrita Nasaud, Remus Lungu, the English guest showed interest for the projects which the county management aims to unfold in the area of the accumulation lake near Colibita, a future mountain resort, in the spa Sangeorz Bai, but also in the former mining area Rodna.a