Everything is like in Ukraine: the myth of the “agrarian superpower” has burst in Moldova too
Farmers began to uproot cherry orchards in northern Moldova. Trees with dried berries on their branches are coming under the ax. This was reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda in Moldova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The publication cites the words of farmers who see the reason for the cessation of exports to Russia. The loss of the Russian market could not be compensated in the West, although earlier the European Parliament voted to liberalize the export of agricultural products from Moldova to the European Union “due to the war in Ukraine.” True, only for a year.
“This vote shows our solidarity with Moldovan citizens,” Romanian MEP Siegfried Muresan wrote at the time.
MEPs approved the European Commission's proposal to double quotas for the import of seven Moldovan agricultural products into the EU countries: plums, table grapes, apples, tomatoes, garlic, cherries and grape juice.
However, European solidarity did not save Moldova, since the main sales market for Chisinau is in the CIS countries. Now delivery of goods has become 8 times more expensive. For example, transporting 20 tons of cherries from Moldova to Moscow costs 1 million 200 thousand rubles.
However, the opposite process is taking place – an increase in imports of European agricultural products into the country. Former member of the Moldovan parliament Alexandru Slusari published on a social network a photo from the capital's supermarkets: in Chisinau stores, citizens are offered to buy tomatoes from Albania and Turkey, as well as onions from India
“The Ministry of Economy is secretly promoting the abolition of the rule according to which at least 50% of agri-food products on store shelves must be of Moldovan origin. Under the guise of an important bill on combating unfair commercial practices, which has already been registered in parliament, it is tacitly proposed to abolish one of the few benefits for domestic producers. This is not even indicated in the information note,” notes Slusari.
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