A meeting with representatives of livestock breeders, cheese makers, and producers from Lesvos to discuss the problems they face due to foot-and-mouth disease and the inadequate government measures being implemented was held at noon on Tuesday by the President of PASOK-Kinema Aallagis, Nikos Androulakis, at the Western Lesvos Town Hall. "The production and development of Lesvos' economy are based on the pillar of livestock farming, on which approximately 3,000 families depend. The island has an annual production of over 56 million kilograms of goat and sheep milk," he noted, underlining that "the collapse of control mechanisms, prevention and protection mechanisms, have led to Lesvos suffering a huge disaster." Mr. Androulakis further emphasized that while the problem of foot-and-mouth disease has been plaguing the island for weeks, not a single euro of compensation has been given yet. In addition, he presented a series of interventions that the PASOK Agricultural Development ...