\nThe
\ndrought and the COVID-19 pandemic have turned 2020 into an atypical
\nyear in which agriculture will not be able to bring money to the
\nstate budget as producers, sellers and farmers have all incurred
\nsignificant losses – Dragos Frumosu, head of the Trade Union
\nFederation in the Food Industry has told in an interview to Radio
\nRomania. According to him, new price hikes are expected in cereals,
\nfodder, meat and bakery products. The EU countries will be trying to
\nprotect their productions to ensure domestic consumption and in this
\ncase exports of some products to Romania are likely to diminish.
\nDragos Frumosu has also mentioned some possible solutions to this
\nsituation.
\n<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
Dragos
\nFrumosu:
\nProper management is the only solution in my opinion, we need to
\nbuild our own state reserves so that we may ensure the necessary
\nproducts until the next harvests. It is also very important to
\navoid price fluctuations all throughout the year and I believe all
\npoliticians are responsible for the situation Romanian agriculture is
\nfacing
\nafter
\n30 years.<\/p>\n
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\n
\n
\n<\/p>\n
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\nThe
\nlatest hail and thunder storms have also caused serious damage to
\ncrops in many regions of Romania. Severe weather has reportedly
\nwreaked havoc on cereals, vegetables, vineyards and fruit trees in
\nnorth-western Romania.
\n<\/p>\n
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\n
\n
\n<\/p>\n
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\nBeekeepers
\nhave called on the Romanian authorities for financial support to
\ncompensate for the losses in a country that used to rank fourth in
\nEurope in terms of honey production.
\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n In
\nturn farmers have called for investment programmes to encourage local
\nproducers. In an open letter they have explained the Romanian
\nagriculture is facing a very difficult period against the background
\nof the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic overlapping
\nthe severest drought in the past 30 years. The have come up with a
\nseries of immediate measures including financial aid to small farmers
\nand the rehabilitation of the country’s irrigation systems.
\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\nLast
\nweek, Agriculture Minister Adrian Oros voiced his intention to grant
\nfarmers drought compensations until autumn; the value of these
\ncompensations is to be set after damage assessments have been
\ncompleted. On Tuesday Oros announced that 1,165,000
\nhectares of farmland have been affected by drought in Romania.
\nBloomberg pundits have recently announced that Romania and several
\nother countries in eastern Europe have been affected by the severest
\ndrought in the past century.
\n<\/p>\n
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\n
\n
\n<\/p>\n
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\n(translated
\nby bill)<\/p>\n
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