With maize acreage measuring 2.5 million hectares, Romania is one of the largest maize-growing countries in the European Union.  Romania also has substantial potential for developing quality seed as less than half the acreage is planted with quality hybrid seed.

Ukraine is a major agricultural country with maize acreage in the vicinity of 2.5 million hectares and has real development potential for both grain maize and silage maize.

Given the size of the Ukrainian and Romanian markets, the FNPSMS has conducted targeted work in these countries, presenting the advantages of French seed and promoting the use of maize varieties developed through optimal genetics. 
 
The FNPSMS also conducts technical, regulatory and business intelligence and helps develop trade.

As part of the Romania/Ukraine operational action programme, the FNPSMS has organised study tours and seminars in France for farmers, technicians, agricultural consultants, professional representatives of the farming and food industry and specialist journalists from the agricultural press;  the Federation has taken part in agricultural events and worked on articles for the Ukrainian agricultural press plus promotional tools (Website, booklets & brochures, films & videos).
 
The FNPSMS has also organised demonstration platforms presenting varieties, doing this through special “relay” farms, showing top-performance farming methods and maize varieties produced through modern plant breeding. 
 
To make these actions even more effective, a partnership has been set up with local stakeholders.  In Ukraine the partnership is with the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, a professional farming group, and ZERNO, a major monthly magazine specialising in arable crops.  In Romania, the main partner for the FNPSMS is the FNPAR (the Romanian federation of agricultural producers).