Investment of 60 million Euro for 25 hectare greenhouse in Romania
"Half of greenhouses will use natural light and half artificial light. I understand that a large part of the 60 million Euro will be allocated to the workforce," said the mayor of this village, Vasiu Stoian, in a press conference. According to the Liberal mayor, the Dutch are interested in building a much larger vegetable plantation in the area, also in localities of Lovrin, Jimbolia and Sânnicolau Mare, but there the legal status of the land is not clear.
"They are also linked to the infrastructure, sewage, to discharge the wastewater, but also to the geothermal waters. In the other three localities there are problems with land owners, where the geothermal waters vein is passing, and only in Tomnatic the land situation is clear. Therefore, we are the first beneficiaries of this investment, going to reap the first harvest in 2014," Stoian added.
Tomnatic has always been one of the richest Banat communes, the first French and German colonists settling there 250 years ago. In 1772, population was brought from Alsace-Lorraine zone to Tomnatic, mostly French, but also from Luxembourg and from the Baden region or Bavaria.
For a long period, Tomnatic was known as the largest 'French' village in Banat, evidenced by the many French surnames. After deportation to Baragan (Southeast of the country), the people who come back to their native village resumed farming, developing a vegetables breeding ground, as well as vineyards and orchards.
Under communism, agriculture works focused on large-scale vegetable growing, and Tomnatic became the largest center of production of paprika in Banat.
