It cannot be while the government and all the intermediaries are fighting for the regeneration of Thessaly and the entire primary sector in the region, some to play speculative games at the expense of citizens and consumers,” he said on his radio SKAI the Minister of Rural Development and Food, Lefteris Avgenakis.

“The behavior of these people is anti-national and it has no difference from the mauragorites of the occupation“, said Mr. Avgenakis.

The minister explained that “the fruit and vegetables that Athens consumes are not produced in the Thessalian plain”.

He emphasized that “the first products that have been affected in the region are cotton and corn. And the fruit and vegetable crops that are cultivated declared in Thessaly are only 28,000 acres, that is 7.5% of the acres of our country that are cultivated as fruit and vegetable crops. Of these 28,000 acres, only a very small percentage in Thessaly, have been declared to have been flooded or damaged by bad weather.’

“It is not understood at the moment that prices will rise because there was a flood in Thessaly for a product that is not produced in Thessaly”, said Mr. Avgenakis, giving as an example the cases recorded in Volos, where in the first hours after the flood the water prices.

“It is unacceptable for prudent people to try to make a profit in the face of a crisis which concerns a suffering world and one of the largest regions of the country”, said Mr. Avgenakis.