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From left, FUW deputy president Glyn Roberts, Derek Vaughan, Emyr Jones and John Bufton.[/caption]
Welsh MEPs Derek Vaughan (Labour) and John Bufton (UKIP) were among several people who visited the Farmers' Union of Wales display at a Rural Wales Exhibition in the European Parliament building in Brussels this week.
Hosted by Plaid Cymru MEP Jill Evans, the aim of the exhibition is to show how Wales uses its EU Rural Development Funding to develop a sustainable economy in rural Wales.
The FUW display featured two Farming Connect demonstration farms run by union members Dilwyn Jenkins, of Cerrigcaranau, Talybont, near Aberystwyth, and Tudur Jones of Ty'n Rhos, Pentrefoelas, Gwynedd.
The FUW is closely linked to organisations such as Farming Connect - a Rural Development funded programme which helps farmers and their families run their business more efficiently through the provision of subsidised training, guidance and advice.
FUW president Emyr Jones, who attended the exhibition's opening ceremony on Monday (October 8), said: "It was a golden opportunity for us to put Wales on the map and highlight how well RDP money is being spent."
Other Rural Development funded projects from Wales in the exhibition are "Community Foodie", a cooperation between the Vale of Glamorgan, Bridgend and Torfaen Councils; Carmarthenshire Council's "Tywi Afon yr Oesoedd"; Ceredigion Council's "Cynnal y Cardi" and Cadwyn Clwyd's "Denbighshire Green Tourism".