Tanczos Barna Calls for Budgetary Correction: "The Ministry of Agriculture Needs up to 1.5 Billion Lei for Farmers
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The Ministry of Agriculture needs up to 1.5 billion lei to pay aid to farmers by the end of the year, Deputy Prime Minister Tánczos Barna said on Monday. He warned that, in the absence of a budgetary correction, more support schemes cannot be implemented, although the farmers' requests have already been submitted.
The Ministry of Agriculture needs 1.5 billion lei by the end of the year to pay out subsidies to farmers, Deputy Prime Minister Barna Tánczos announced on Monday.
Tánczos Barna, the interim minister of agriculture said that there is a need for budgetary correction, because otherwise payments of up to 1.5 billion lei to which the institution must make up to the end of the year cannot be made.
The poultry and pig sectors need a national state aid scheme to compensate for electricity and natural gas costs, under conditions where recent costs risk reducing the competitiveness of Romanian producers, including in the external markets. The warning was launched on Monday by the interim Minister of Agriculture, Tanczos Barna, at the presentation of the balance sheet of the mandate [...]
The Ministry of Agriculture needs 1.2-1.5 billion lei by the end of the year to be able to finance all support programmes for Romanian farmers, including those for which money has already been received from the European Commission, but for which co-financing is required. The poultry and pig meat industry is severely affected by electricity and gas prices and risks losing competitiveness in the external markets.
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