Head of Moldovan parliament's commission for agriculture says Sandu cabinet acted against interests of local producers

Chisinau, 25 February /MOLDPRES/ - The head of the parliamentary commission for agriculture, Radu Mudreac, has said that the state must apply all levers it has to support the local producers.    

At a today’s news conference, Mudreac said that the cabinet led by Maia Sandu, in the person of economic minister Vadim Brinzan, had withdrawn from the parliament the draft law, passed in the first reading, which gave Moldovan producers right to sell their goods in the networks of the big grocery stores.  

”The former economics minister, Vadim Brinzan, withdrew this draft from legislative procedure, with no argument,” the MP said.  

The head of the parliament’s commission for agriculture stressed that this draft law was re-put on the legislative body’s agenda and that the big networks of grocery stores basked it. “We have a string of documents which confirm that the producers and the trade networks support this draft. The document is necessary for our native producers. The state must apply all levers, in order to back the local producers. We cannot be an agrarian country, which earmarks subsidies worth one billion lei in agriculture, but which imports food products,” Mudreac said.      

According to the initiative on amending the law on foreign trade, the trader is obliged to buy and ensure the putting on shelves food products coming from the short food supply chain at a level of at least 50 per cent of the linear length of the commercial shelf.