To date, ELGA has paid advances amounting to 150 million euros in compensation for crop production losses and livestock losses,for the support of producers after the disaster caused by the extreme weather in our Thessaly Daniel and Elias, notes in a statement recently issued by the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food.

As he adds: “After On February 10, €110 million will be transferred to ELGA to continue the ad hoc compensation program in Thessaly, until their final payment, with a date of June 30, 2024 at the latest.

The government, with the approval of the EU, has secured an ad hoc program from the State Budget 260 million euros for compensation while if additional compensation costs are required, they will be provided by the Government, also from the 2024 State Budget.

It is obvious and we point it out for those who insist on ignoring it, the compensations paid to the affected farmers of Thessaly are outside the ELGA budget.

The farmers and breeders of Thessaly at the end of the ad hoc program will have received 100% of the value of the compensations to which they are entitled, without cuts or reductions.

Therefore those who peddle myths about reduction by 35% of the compensations the only ones they don’t serve are the farmers and their interests.

The bad thing is that the supposedly exclusive journalistic information was uncritically adopted by PASOK in its announcement. Too bad for the same and his story…”.