Moldovan premier messages to farmers, fruit growers

Chisinau, 18 January /MOLDPRES/ – Prime Minister Pavel Filip addressed a message to farmers and growers in Moldova, at the beginning of today meeting of the Government, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.

The chief of the Cabinet stressed that the government and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry were always open for dialogue in order to overcome existing problems, including the losses caused by frosts in 2016. "Year 2016 was not an easy year for farmers, but it was not easy for any government. We were in a position not only to pay 2016 subsidies in agriculture, but also to pay arrears in 2014 and 2015. We managed these difficult budgetary conditions, because we had a very constructive dialogue with farmers' associations," said the prime minister.

At the same time, the prime minister gave assurances that the government would fulfill the undertaken liabilities and approve in the near future the Regulation on granting financial support to farmers who had suffered from natural disasters in 2016.

"It is regrettable that some representatives of farmers who are concurrently and leaders of opposition political parties, trying to mislead the farmers in our country and to use them in their political games. I know you to know from the first source that the Government wants to support you and we will do our best the farmers to reach our support as soon as possible," said Pavel Filip.

(Editor A. Raileanu)