The governing body of the Strategic Plan for the Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas (SPDARA) 2023-2027 has approved 97 local initiative groups that will implement strategies for Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) during the program period 2023-2027 under intervention II.Ж.5 "Implementation of operations, including cooperation activities and their preparation, selected within the local development strategy," reported the press office of the Ministry of Agriculture. The total agreed value of the financed CLLD strategies is 684,020,609.49 leva, of which 551,252,542.00 leva from the SPDARA and 132,768,067.49 leva supplementary funding from the "Competitiveness and Innovation in Enterprises" program, the "Human Resources Development" program, the "Environment" program, and the "Education" program. The maximum amount of the total public contribution under the SPDARA 2023-2027, within each approved CLLD strategy, is up to the equivalent in leva of: • 2,300,000 euros, ...