Steadily in her southern arc TEF they are determined to stay all her weekend Agrotica its farmers, breeders, fishermen and beekeepers Central Macedonia.

Today at 12 noon will take place at Thessaloniki the big rally, with the participation of farmers from Central and Western Greece, Northern Greece and Thessaly. In fact, the mobilization cannot be ruled out to take place in an outdoor area within the exhibition center.

Farmers and breeders in Central Macedonia they declare unsatisfied from the new measures and announcements of the Prime Minister and its producers Thessaly presented their counter proposal, which will be sent with letter to the Prime Ministerrequesting: • Immediate compensation for the damage caused by Storm Daniel • Immediate compensation for Carla Lake and flood control projects • Measures for production costs.

What they say about announcements and measures in Central Macedonia

The mobilizers of Central Macedonia stress to APE-BPE that the primary sector and its problems are not limited to Thessaly and they underline that obviously and rightly the affected regions of our country are additionally strengthened by the intense weather phenomena, however they state that “the primary sector is all of Greece and all its individual sectors”.
After the announcements of the prime minister, as well as of the government officials, many of the mobilizers said that “now is when our real struggle begins, we will not step back”.

Commenting on yesterday’s announcements by the Minister of Rural Development and Food, the farmer from Lagadas, Kostas Hatziparadeisis, representing the mobilisers, notes: “Everything he announced is a a drop in the ocean. They don’t even touch on the real and existing problems of the primary sector, which if they are not addressed, we will disappear and leave the Greek land, in debt and unemployed”.

“We are waiting and we want to hear documented solutions and not superficial announcements”, the farmer from Lagadas, Kostas Hatziparadeisis, points out to APE-MPE and adds: “We consider that we are being fooled, we want real and substantial solutions”. Among other things he notes that they are calling for rural oil at the pump and states that “refunding excise duty on oil is not satisfying anyone in the primary sector». Indicatively, in fact, he states that for 1,800 acres of cultivation he himself pays an amount of at least 25,000 euros, since he supplies at least 25,000 liters annually.

“We are not beggars, to be thrown one dry piece and to leave the blockades”, points out the farmer from Kilkis, Dimitris Vafiadis, adding “we are professional farmers and we want to stay, but with the costs we have borne it is impossible”.

In this context, he talks about a national strategy for the development and promotion of the primary sector, adding that “we must finally settle down and get serious as a country if we want to have a primary sector”.

On standby, but on the rise, are the mobilizers of the primary sector throughout Central Macedonia, remaining in the blocks they have set up all the previous days and declaring that “there is no turning back if our just demands are not met». They hold constant meetings, aiming to redefine their next move.

Especially dissatisfied stated the Halkidiki producers, whose delegation had a fruitless meeting with local rulers of the prefecture yesterday. “The only thing we got from this meeting, which lasted more than two hours, is the commitment that an attempt will be made to get us an appointment with the prime minister,” said the president of the Semantron Agricultural Cooperative, Filoklis Gotzias, to APE-MPE.

The demands of the farmers of Halkidiki are compensations for the failure of olive trees, agricultural electricity and oil, the return of 100% of the subsidies that were cut, the quick and fair distribution of ELGA compensations, forest maps and the restoration of equalization compensation in the prefecture. In this context, today they will proceed with a two-hour symbolic blockade, from 6:00 p.m. of both streams, at the Moudania junction on the road to Thessaloniki, while they will meet to redefine their next movement.