There was a timely question to Parliament to the Minister of Rural Development
The Minister of Rural Development and Food is addressed to the Minister of Rural Development and Food. SYRIZA, For the “most serious crisis of the last decades in the primary sector, as a result of political choices by the ND government, which has led to a deadlock of producers and an international depreciation of the country.”
Led by Socrates Famello, MPs who sign up for the question accuse the government of not developing a national strategy for the countryside and for the primary sector by strengthening the country’s competitive advantages, in the context of climate and food and food crisis, Beekeeping. The result, MPs say, is farmers and farmers in despair and while the subsidies of 2024 are “waiting” and the advance payment is in the “air”.
Among other things, they point out that “the unexpected cancellation of the organic farming program has dispelled the planning and investment of thousands of organic growers. Thousands of producers have been excluded from the Gaia Agricultural Invoice because they have lost the 120 -installment regulation, while remaining unpaid by ELGA for their eligible compensation. At the same time, the three -month cessation of Community aid payments has triggered a chain of investigations by farmers, transferring the problem to suppliers, input businesses and the entire market. The only thing that is going well over Mitsotakis’s rule is the plan of theft of farmers’ money from the blue locusts. “
The OPEKEPE scandal remains in complete blackout as we are watching an unprecedented institutional “bazama” effort within the Inquiry Committee, while the country is under surveillance by the European authorities, SYRIZA said, and stresses that the European Commission has rejected the action plan. “The blow to the credibility of the public administration is huge and directly touches the prime minister’s office,” MPs said, and according to RES EIA add:
“Farmers remain free of liquidity, excluded from the agricultural invoice, unpaid for ELGA compensation and trapped in a vicious debt cycle, while the country’s production and food security are threatened. At the same time, the Mitsotakis government is privatizing irrigation and cancellation of the organic farming program, canceling any prospects for green growth. The situation in livestock farming is dramatic, with the sheep and goat bomber escaping any control, while veterinary services remain weakened. Serious staff deficiencies are also recorded in the structures of ELGO-DIMITRA and EFET, undermining agricultural research and food controls. “
SYRIZA, underlines, calls for immediate rehabilitation of payments, modernization of ELGA, substantial support for producers and a national plan for reconstruction of the agricultural sector focusing on sustainable production, nutritional safety and the fair distribution of CAP resources.