SYRIZA: Mitsotaki’s announcements for the farmers so far are a joke

“The announcements of the Mitsotakis government so far to deal with the huge wave of accuracy that dramatically increases the production costs faced by farmers, stockbreeders and fishermen, can only be described as a joke,” the head of the Rural Development Department said in a joint statement. Of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance Stavros Arachovitis, the head of Environment and Energy Socrates Famellos and the head of Development and Investment, Alexis Haritsis.

As they point out, “SYRIZA-PS has proposed concrete and costly solutions to the constantly growing problems that affect the primary sector of the country, however, the government seems to have lost all contact with reality.”

“To date, the government has announced measures amounting to 170 million euros, piecemeal, untimely and without any planning in time horizon to deal with a crisis that has acquired permanent characteristics. will be given somewhere in 2023, when SYRIZA-PS had committed in 2019 for the return of EFK already from 1/1/2020, long before the crisis of accuracy broke out “, they emphasize, adding that” similarly, it is impossible not to compare the 30 million euros that were recently announced for livestock in total, with the 44 million euros given by the SYRIZA government only for sheep and goat farming in the form of de minimis in December 2018, without then avoiding a crisis of accuracy “.

Continuing, they note that “in terms of electricity costs, the government just the day before yesterday managed to issue the JMC that had been promised since December, but with valves that put even out of subsidy a large number of producers, such as livestock units and greenhouses, which will not 80% of the increases due to the subsidy limit “and add that” in addition, it has already announced much less coverage of the increases of the adjustment clause for January and February, but, due to its officially declared inadequacy, has not been able to issue the necessary JMC for to inform the producers, while there is no planning in view of the beginning of the irrigation season.

“It is now clear to everyone that the government does not realize but is not interested in the continuation of primary production in our country. At a time when the huge increase in energy (oil and electricity) permeates the entire chain of agricultural production and manufacturing companies. “Blaming the producers, the processors, and of course the final consumer, the prime minister himself is provocative and describes the farmers who are fighting for their survival as” professional protesters “, they comment.

In closing, SYRIZA-PS MPs criticize the Prime Minister for an “unbelievable statement” that “Greek milk should be more expensive”, estimating that this pushes “in essence the consumers in the imported market”. “Unfortunately, this is how the Prime Minister of the country perceives the support of livestock! “and the processing of dairy and other agricultural products. The best service in the homeland at this time of crisis is the resignation and the recourse to the popular verdict”, concludes the statement of the competent heads of the SYRIZA-PS sector.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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