Livestock farmers threaten with protests
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Livestock farmers say they are on the brink of bankruptcy, due to drought and accuse Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin of being more concerned about “the cult of personality, more than the problems in the sector” and threaten with protests.
“We wonder if the Ministry of Agriculture is still there, because it helps us with nothing. The amount of milk has already decreased by 50% and the situation is getting worse by the day. The losses are enormous. For the destruction of the livestock sector in Romania the guilty one is the Minister of Agriculture, more concerned about the cult of personality than with the problems in the sector,” a statement by the president of the National Union of Sheep and Goats Breeders in Romania, Marcel Andrei, reads.
On the other hand, according to the source, not all livestock farmers have received the transitional national aid they were entitled to last year.
Sheep farmers also demand the repeal of the Law on Hunting, amended in July.
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