Over MKD 15 billion in subsidies paid to farmers in two years, production has increased and the deficit in the import and export of agricultural products has been reduced, Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said Thursday.
These, as the PM said, are the results achieved in the past two years after, he emphasized, the cataclysm that we inherited from the government led by SDSM and DUI, which has now been joined by the political party Levica.
“I hear from the opposition, especially from the coalition of SDSM, DUI and Levica, these previous ones were in government for seven years. I will remind you, as if we had forgotten what a cataclysm that was left behind – three unpaid wages in AD “Vodostopanstvo”, which are now being paid month after month. The reservoirs were literally turned into swamps, including here in Kavadarci, Lake Tikvesh. In particular, it was fortunate that the winegrowers received water to irrigate their crops.
Now, you see, with household work, that is no longer a problem, it is, how should I say, a normal thing, but when compared to the situation then, it was a problem. Several unpaid wages in the PE National Forests and debts to farmers based on direct payments from 2020/2021.
Now we are already finishing them, with the rebalance, they will be paid to both farmers and dairy farmers from 2025 and the cycle of applying for subsidies, for direct payments in 2026, has already begun,” Mickoski said.
We have our own goal, we have focus, we have priorities and based on that we will conduct our policies, added the PM.
