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Several farmers in Moldova protested

13:11 | 21.06.2022 Category: Economic

Chisinau, June 21 / MOLDPRES /- Farmers from several parts of the country went out to protest today.

Protesting farmers have taken their agricultural machinery to the streets of Rezina, Causeni, Ungheni and Falesti districts and are demanding that the government reimburse the full amount of all diesel purchased by farmers in 2022, as well as partially offset the costs of diesel, fertilizers and pesticides in the context of price increases. from the last six months.

"The event has an economic character and any attempt to join the political forces in this protest will be stopped immediately. Farmers are still willing to dialogue with the authorities and are waiting for the decision-makers to come to the territory to talk to the agricultural producers ", it is shown in a statement of the Farmers' Force Association, the organizer of the protest.

At the same time, the Moldovan government announced last night that it will compensate up to 100% of the value of the excise duty on diesel for small and medium enterprises. The decision was made public by Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița at a working meeting with representatives of farmers and agriculturists, organized at the government.

"We are a government that supports farmers. This was very clear when we increased the agricultural subsidy fund by 60%. Depending on the budget revenues and the resources we manage to mobilize on the part of external partners, we will continue this policy of supporting farmers ", Gavrilița said.

Thus, the large agricultural producers will benefit from compensations of 30% or 894 lei / ton, and the small and medium enterprises will benefit from the compensation of the excise of up to 100% or 2,980 lei / ton. The excise tax will be granted retroactively, according to the invoices, starting with January 1, and almost 14 thousand companies will benefit from compensations. The total amount for small, medium and large producers will be about 277 million lei.

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