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Simos Kedikoglou: To strengthen our self-sufficiency in animal feed

Enhancing domestic feed production, combating profiteering and medium-long-term planning to stem the energy crisis are key priorities of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, said Simos Kedikogos at the University of Rural Development and Food at the Conference on “Rational nutrition of productive animals”.

The Undersecretary referred to the cost of animal feed, stressing the need to provide incentives for their production. “A key word that we must remember as a lesson from this crisis because of the war is self-sufficiency. We must enhance our food self-sufficiency, our self-sufficiency in animal feed,” he said. in order to support the crops of livestock plants and in combination with the temporary suspension of the set-aside measure, which concerns more than 380,000 acres, to increase the area of ​​productive land “.

It also focused on the platform for the declaration of stocks of agricultural products and food, which is included in the JMC of the Ministers of Rural Development and Development and Investment with the aim of tackling profiteering.

“In our country, as assured by the Prime Minister Mr. Mitsotakis and the Minister of Rural Development Mr. Georgantas, we try to face the consequences of the crisis and to help control prices, intervening where there are phenomena of profiteering and market distortion,” he said.

“At the same time,” he said, “we have moved quickly to find alternatives to grain imports from other European countries, from North and South America, but also from North Africa, mainly Egypt.” Mr. Kedikoglou reminded that the uncertainty about the security of energy supply had started before the Russian invasion, saying that “the rapid rise in gas prices led to a rise in fertilizer prices in a simple way: it increased by 400% “The cost of ammonia. The production of ammonia requires a large amount of natural gas. Since then, the domino effect has followed and dragged down the feed as well,” he stressed.

In closing, he warned those who might try to speculate that they would not succeed, typically saying that “speculators are reminiscent of the black men of the occupation.”

Source: Capital

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