In high tones he answered PASOK’s timely question, Nikos Androulakisfor the primary sector, in the context of the Prime Minister’s time in Parliament the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced from the House of Representatives the arrangement of 700 red cooperative loans and 21,000 farmers.

“Today we are setting a public consultation that gives a solution to 700 red loans and 21,000 farmers. We do not give loans, but we give brave arrangements that include both haircuts and the possibility of refinancing elements that may be sustainable, “the prime minister said.

For his part, Nikos Androulakis called on Mr. Mitsotakis to provide explanations and answers to the countryside world about the withering existence. “You have failed and this is testified by the problems of farmers who are magnificent.”

Androulakis: “The primary sector of the country and can and is worth it better”

Nikos Androulakis, from the beginning of his speech to the House with which he developed the timely question to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the problems of the rural world, used high tones of criticism by saying: “Mr. Prime Minister, in your sixth year, It fails fully both at the management level and in the degradation of a long -term national plan for the primary sector. Our villages have become ghost villages as permanent residents grow old and our young people are led to immigration in search of opportunities and prospects for their lives. “

As Mr Androulakis said, the cost of production is increasing rapidly while delays in the payment of compensation and aid and in the operation of ELGA and OPECEPE.

He also added that debts, the inability to fund the banking system and the fund’s threats to seizure of agricultural land bring producers to a deadlock.

He added that the Greeks, the opening of the price gap from the field to the shelf, the lack of infrastructure and land workers, but above all, the absence of a visionary plan of modernization of the primary sector and adapting it to the 21st century. depreciation of the rural world.

Nikos Androulakis pointed out how major problems in the agricultural sector have an impact on demographic with the villages deserted, the rural population shrinking, the cultivated areas are drastically reduced and according to Eurostat data in 2023, Greece registering the highest reduction rate. of the size of agricultural production by 16%.

“We have reached the point of spending more than 10 billion euros a year on food imports, and even import products that have a comparative advantage: such as tomatoes from Poland and Turkey. In four years, imports increased by 4 billion, “said Androulakis, who had a result of a reduction in agricultural income.

“The rural world is not the poor relative. The primary sector is worth it and can better. Those of you who are in itself a government that has a plan and offers stability, how do you justify the fact that in 5 years you have changed 5 ministers? What do farmers remember their work? “PASOK-KINAL President said,” chaos, incapacity, customer services have essentially characterized your government work in the last five and a half years. “

Mr. Androulakis also spoke of mineralization in the country’s energy future, “giving energy communities to the powerful energy players and oligarchs while there is no plan to utilize the waters.”

“It has been our tongue to support the creation of energy communities among farmers, with the priority of irrigation organizations, producer groups, our islands and remote and mountainous areas. But you nothing, “said Nikos Androulakis.

As PASOK’s president said, in 2024 it evolved into the worst year of payments since the implementation of the CAP in our country and the big picture is that while the European Union has provided almost the same funding in our country as the previous programming period for the CAP, the Government failed to manage it properly.

He described the culmination of the government’s failure, for six years, the management crisis in OPEKEPE, leading it to European surveillance and a 283m -euro fine.

“Mr. Prime Minister I called you in the budget, from this step, to provide answers to OPECEPE and ELGA. You denied it. Today I look forward to clear answers: Why was it under European supervision? Why has it changed 5 times administration?

Why was this huge fine imposed? Why did he fail in the field of payments? “, Mr. Androulakis stressed, and claimed how” proof of opaque practices and mismanagement is also the resignation of the President of ELGO-DIMITRA, who in his resignation letter, the man who was your own Choice is talking about direct assignments. What do you have to say about all this Mr Mitsotakis? We are asking for convincing answers to the orgy of mismanagement and opacity here and now. “

Acute was the criticism of PASOK’s president for the excessive cost of production – as he said – where, according to ELSTAT “they were increasing:

  • Consumables: +30.1%
  • Energy and lubricants: +32.9%
  • Fertilizers: + 47.4%
  • Feed: +34.7%»

Developed the alternative plan to reduce production costs that PASOK has prepared, among other things::

  • Ensuring the protection of agricultural land from seizures.
  • By providing a second chance to those who have been proven to be tested by the crisis or damaged, to ensure their stay in the profession.
  • By adopting the tax -free, irrevocable and unmistakable aid.

“The primary sector for us is not a flag of opportunity but a central pillar for the productive reconstruction and demographic rebirth of the Greek region. We are determined to serve this national goal with all our might, ”he added.

Mr Mitsotakis recalled concrete measures to reduce the taxation of farmers and how the government heard the demands of producers last year when they went out into the blocks. “I called them to Maximus and heard their demands. I heard 2+1 requests. “

Mitsotakis Answer: “We have subsidized the cheap stream to farmers for 10 years”

Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded to the position of the opposition leader, who underlined at the beginning of his speech that issues of the rural world did not arise in the last five years. “I cannot help but comment that the practices of extreme borrowing in the rational loan and unknowingly began on your own days,” the prime minister said.

“It is a bit hypocritical on the part of the opposition to argue that the government has non -existent policies in the primary sector, that our aim is to discredit the rural world and the region has a picture of abandonment. These are a false image, the government has raised embankments and wants to turn the primary sector into competitiveness, “he said, adding:

“This government is taxed 9% and reduced by 50% for all producers’ associations We have dropped VAT on fertilizers, agricultural machinery. This is the government that heard the demands of the producers when such a time had come out in the blocks last year that is a customary right of farmers. I shouted at them and heard 2+1 requests: EFK in the oil. It was done by this government and is implemented in 2025. “

Indeed, Mr Mitsotakis lifted the glove in Nikos Androulakis’ objections, saying that “what you said is for the farmer to take oil tax free on the pump, that is, the recipe to launch the smuggling”.

“We have subsidized the farmers in the cheap electricity with shape for a whole 10 years. If you have a magical way to reduce the current to 3 or 5 minutes or reset it, move to SYRIZA’s seats. “

“Or you are uninformed Mr. Androulakis or you choose to present a distorted picture. What we can agree on is that we cannot deal with the problems of the agricultural sector by earlier methods, only with subsidies. Our goal is to increase the added value of our products produced. We want the cultivation of the land and animal farming to provide a good life to those in the countryside. Today there is a hidden dynamism in the primary sector. The picture is not black as you want to present it, “the prime minister continued.

He pointed out that “we must convince the farmers that a comprehensive change is needed and we have taken such initiatives. One such is the turn of crops to greenhouses as productivity and water needs cannot be compared to housed crops, ”saying:

“We founded 7 IEKs with agricultural specialties because the new producer must be a specialized and informed entrepreneur. We also focus on cooperative shapes and so we have given brave tax incentives to these schemes. This model is followed by the most advanced rural countries. For the problem with farm hands, despite the fact that we have given motivation it does not seem to be interesting. But the agricultural sector cannot collapse and have shortages of agricultural hands, in order to have shortages the production must be greater. We have moved into cooperation with countries such as Egypt where we have found the first 5,000 workers. We have directed the Foreign Minister for a quick way of moving workers where we need. “

“From your placements, in addition to the general declarations, I try to find out if there was a specific measure and all I was holding was the ceiling on fertilizers and feeds. When we run out of those products that are international come to talk to the producers. Not even SYRIZA says that, “he commented.

Regarding the red loans of farmers, the prime minister announced a provision on public consultation to provide a solution to the red loans of 700 cooperatives and 21,000 farmers. “We do not give loans but we are allowed to have brave arrangements that will have haircuts and simultaneously refinancing elements that can revive. The government is courageously facing an issue that is time. “

“You are a Squader Market – Mea Culpa I once voted for Konstantopoulou”

During his discourse, the prime minister maintained a controversy with PASOK over the issue of partnerships.

“Half of your executives are planning partnerships with SYRIZA and Varoufakis,” the prime minister said, even named Paul Geroulanos.

“Mr. Androulakis has come up with aphasia,” he said while describing PASOK as a “supermarket party” on the subject of partnerships, while also practicing a kind of … self -criticism that voted for Zoe Konstantopoulou in 2015, pointing out. That he would never do it a second time.