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MANITOWOC — Retired farmer Bob Binversie is giving a group of about a dozen farmers and agriculture workers from Moldova a tour of dairy farms, slaughter houses and meat packing plants this week.

The tour was coordinated through Manitowoc area farm experts and the Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, which is designed to educate farmers in Eastern Europe on how to increase their production and efficiency. The tour, which began Monday and ends Thursday, included stops at Newton Meats, Siemers Holstein Farm, Soaring Eagle Dairy and other farms, Binversie said.

"In technology, we are trying to take them from 20 years back to today in one jump if we can," said Binversie, who has visited Moldova, a European country, five times in the last two years. "They lack in funds … that's why they are here, to see the latest technology and how to incorporate it the quickest way possible."

Each day, the farmers tour plants and then discuss what they've learned and how they plan to implement those practices on their farms. Binversie said he is asking each farmer to draft development plans for their farms over the next months and years.

Moldovan farmers want to rebuild their dairy and meat industries after the country gained its independence from the Soviet Union, said Moldovan citizen Eugene Tataru, a consultant for Moldova Dairy Farm Services Agency, a organization developed with the help of Binversie.

Tataru said his agency's goal is to get Moldovan farms up to the technology and production levels of U.S. farms. The biggest barriers to these improvements are a lack of access to technology, better cow genetics and financial support, he said.

"To get a loan from a bank in Moldova it is going to charge 20 percent interest per year," he said. "Our farmers are looking for investment, they are looking for new technologies because we don't have all of that."

Moldovan farmers have been "milking by hand in old, stinky barns" in "unsanitary conditions" but progress is being made, Binversie said.

Binversie and other advocates are seeking U.S. and foreign investment to help the farmers.

In two years, two farms have improved their milking parlors, he said.

"We have six or seven (farms) that are going to be putting in milking parlors and redoing their buildings into better ventilated barns to take of their cattle in a more comfortable way," he said.

Moldova is bordered by Romania, Ukraine and the Black Sea.

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