The huge ones problems faced by Primary Sector, such as its huge increase cost of production, η competitiveness of products, the issue of agricultural oil, his return ΦΠΑ and infrastructure that are pending, they employed her today Committee on Agricultureof Parliament.
Scream of agony heard from the agricultural organizations, which expressed the opinion that if the sector is not supported, it will be led to annihilation.
Speaking after the Commission session, the President of the Commission, Giannakis Gabriel, said that the enormous problems of the primary sector due to the rapid increase in production costs and the need for substantial support to the agricultural world were discussed.
He said that today it was established that while Government understands that there really is a problem, Nevertheless the 17 cm.aid it has granted to livestock farming is more than a drop in the ocean. From the unexpected profits it has received from the VAT from the increased production costs, the Government benefited with more than 30 million euros.
"We we want η Government to be listened to the farming world, to draw up plans for immediate support, otherwise there will be no primary sector", he said and added that the commissioner of state aid has stated that there are ways and the EU has given many tools in this direction. Despite this, the Government does not listen, does not listen and does not want to", he said.
Mr. Gavriel said that the issue will be discussed until the Government prepares support plans and also improves the existing ones, which can no longer respond to the increased problems, such as the need to review the rate of the special VAT regime and the extension of the use of agricultural oil with a reduced consumption tax in the entire range of agricultural production.
DISY Member of Parliament Kyriakos Hatzigiannis said in his statements that the granting of any aid to the primary sector is a contribution to contain inflation because if the entire increase in the production cost of the primary sector is passed on to the consumer, it will have huge consequences on the level of inflation.
"Every aid given by the State to the primary sector means aid to the consumer himself", he said and noted that aid plans must be clear, not linked to other factors and parameters that farmers or breeders cannot fulfill, in such a way that some receive the aid and some do not.
This kind of approach, Mr. Hatzigiannis said, will create producers of two measures and it is not fair and correct and therefore policies must be based on the equal treatment of citizens. He said that no terms and conditions should be set at this stage that have to do with either the environment or hygiene, or anything else.
ELAM Member of Parliament Linos Papagiannis referred to two very big problems which the State sees but does not deal with. The first, he said, concerns foreign workers as there are phenomena where workers leave their jobs because they are either asylum seekers or because they are working illegally.
The second problem is the new plan of the Ministry of Agriculture and it concerns the production and the seeds that the farmers will use. He said that they have warned that this is a misguided measure that will only benefit large producers while the majority of producers will not be able to sign up to the plan.
Finally, he expressed the hope that the Government will realize that under existing συνθήκεςthese occupations will not be viable.
Source: KYPE