Agricultural Pollution Control Project WBTF 050327-RO

1. Regional Conference on "Agricultural Sources Pollution Control in Danube, Baltic and Black Sea Riparian Countries"Bucharest, RomaniaSeptember 30 - October 3, 2003

2. Agricultural Pollution Control ProjectWBTF 050327-RO ROMANIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTS, WATERS AND ENVIRONMENT

3. Europe - River Basins • Area • Basin 103 km2 • Volga 1,360 • Danube 817 • Dniepro 503 • Don 423 • Northen Dvina 357 • Pecora 322 • Ural 231 • Rhin 225 • Wisla 194 • Elbe 144 • Odra 125 • Loira 115 • Western Dvina 88 • Ebro 86 • Tajo 81 • Dniester 62

4. Black Sea – as seen by the Russian painter I.K. Aivazovsky (1817-1900)

5. Black Sea Basin • Black Sea • Riparian Countries: • ROMANIA • UKRAINE • RUSSIA • GEORGIA • TURKEY • BULGARIA

6. View of the Danube Valley near Regensburg Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538)

7. Danube Basin Countries in the Basin: • Germany • Austria • Slovakia • Hungary • FYR Countries • Bulgaria • Romania • Moldova • Ukraine Catchment Area: 817,000 km2 Danube’s average annual discharge: 6,430 m3/sec.

8. Transboundary Cooperation

11. ROMANIA – GENERAL INFORMATION Area: 238,392 km2 Population: 22.7 mil. inh. Capital: Bucharest No. of Counties: 42 Large Cities: 7 Communes: 2,686 Agricultural Land: 14.9 mil. ha Forests: 6.4 mil. ha International Waters (Danube River): 1.075 km National Waters: 9,301 km

12. AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL - PROJECT AREA

13. Project Funding Total Project value: US$ 10.8 mil., out of which: • US$ 5.15 mil. World Bank from GEF funds; • US$ 1.86 mil. Government of Romania; • US$ 0.29 mil. Calarasi County Council; • US$ 1.0 mil. From the Governmental “Agricultural Support Services” Project; • US$ 2.50 mil. In kind contribution of the direct beneficiaries.

14. Project Components Component 1: Activities in the Calarasi County (US$ 9.22 mil.) • Manure Management Practices (US$ 5.20 mil.) • Promotion of Environment-Friendly Agricultural Practices (US$ 2.47 mil.) • Integrated Management of Boianu-Sticleanu Polder and Ecological Restoration of part of the Calarasi-Raul Polder (US$ 1.09 mil.) • Strengthening Capacity in Calarasi County (Service for Water Management, Soil and Agro-chemistry Office and Public Health Directorate) to Monitor Soil and Water Quality and Environmental Impacts (US$ 0.46 mil.) Component 2: Strengthening National Policy and Regulatory Capacity (US$ 0.27 mil.) Component 3: Public Awareness and Replication Strategy (US$ 0.45 mil.) Component 4: Project Management Unit (US$ 0.86 mil.)

15. Main Actions Supported by the Project At the Local level • Provision of Sub-grants for Beneficiaries to support: • Adopting organic farming; Funds from the ASSP-Competitive Grant Scheme are leveraged to support organic farming projects in Calarasi County; • Purchasing and installation of household level manure storage facilities; • Promotion of Good Agricultural Practices through Testing and Demonstrating Programs; • Training Beneficiaries in the field of Good Agricultural Waste Management Practices; • Construction of 14 Commune Level Manure Management Facilities and procurement of related Equipment;

16. Demonstration of a number of improved agricultural practices, including integrated crop and nutrient management; • Tree planting in erosion-prone locations in the terrace area and windbreaks or shelterbelts on privately-owned agricultural land; • Agro-forestry on degraded lands and implementation of Code of Good Agricultural Practices on the arable land in Boianu-Sticleanu Polder; • Design and implementation of a conservation management plan for the proposed Iezer Calarasi nature reserve; • Studies for the ecological restoration of part (about 3,000 ha) of the Calarasi-Raul Polder; • Specific laboratory and field equipment for the local agencies in charge with soil and water quality monitoring;

17. Preparing a Code of Good Agricultural Practices for water and soil protection; • Support for adoption of the EU Nitrates Directive and estimating the costs at the national level for voluntary and non-voluntary application of the CGAP in accordance with the provision of the EU Nitrates Directive. • Support a number of public awareness activities to familiarize the population and help induce the behavioral changes necessary to the success of the Project in the seven selected communes and replication in the County area. • Promote the Project as a possible model for replication in the Danube and Black Sea riparian countries.

18. ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

19. Financial information

20. Actual Implementation – Financial Aspects • Effectiveness date: April 29th, 2002 • Financial Requirements accomplished – starting of disbursement: July 1st, 2002 - GEF and GOR funds available; - Local support (Calarasi County Council) provided; - Communes and Local beneficiaries ready to involve in Project activities; => 1 year and a half of Project implementation

21. Actual Implementation – Financial Aspects DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS GEF funds: US$ 836,500 GOR funds: US$ 670,000 Local contribution: US$ 62,500 Calarasi County Council Beneficiaries contribution: US$ 73,500 (communas, individual beneficiaries) TOTAL: US$ 1,642,500

22. Actual Implementation – Financial Aspects EXPENDITURES ON DISBURSEMENT CATEGORIES -US$-

23. Actual Implementation – Financial Aspects

24. Actual Implementation – Financial Aspects

25. Actual Implementation – Financial Aspects EXPENDITURES ON PROJECT COMPONENTS -US$-

26. Achievements and looking ahead

27. General aspects regarding the inappropriate manure management in the Project area At Commune level: The waste (livestock waste mixed with other household materials such as plastic, glass and metal) is transported by carts to the so called Manure platforms.

28. So called “Manure Platform”

29. So called “Manure Platform”

30. Manure stored on the bank of a lake

31. So called “Manure Platform”

32. Component 1: General aspects regarding the manure management in the Project area • At the household level, the usual behaviour is to mix household waste materials such as plastic, glass and metal with the livestock waste.

33. Waste is improperly stored within or outside the household yards before being evacuated.

34. Direct leach into the soil, of the urine, from the livestock shelters. • Groundwater contamination increase due to the dirty yard and roof waters, which leaches into the soil, near by the unprotected well heads.

35. Achievements • Construction of two commune level Manure Storage Platforms in Ciocanesti and Vlad Tepes communes; • 7 commune level Manure Storage Platforms under different construction stages;

36. Construction of commune level manure storage facilities Vlad Tepes commune

37. Effluents Storage tank – Vlad Tepes Manure Platform

38. Hydroinsulation – Ciocanesti Manure Platform

39. Finalized Manure Storage Platform - Vlad Tepes commune

40. Achievements • About 900 individual household manure storage facilities constructed

41. Operated Individual Manure Storage Facilities

43. General aspects regarding the degraded lands in Calarasi County • Sloped terrain, exposed to erosion and with low agricultural potential; • Unprotected water courses; • Swamping tendency; • Shore erosion. Alexandru Odobescu Commune

44. Awareness and Training on Agro-forestry Practices

45. Tree planting in Ciocanesti commune

46. Accacia trees planted on slopped lands in Vlad Tepes

48. Testing and Demonstration Program for Environment-friendly Agricultural Practices Demonstration plot – Independenta commune

49. Training farmers for preparing project proposals under the ASSP –CGS Project Training sessions in Calarasi Lectures jointly presented by ASSP and APCP teams.

50. Soil and Water Monitoring • Construction of a 76 piezometers’ network The monitoring program is implemented by the National Administration “Romanian Waters” - Waters Management Service, Calarasi