Greece: It's time to change our agricultural export model

Amidst the new challenges of the global market and the pressure exerted by the United States’ trade tariffs, the Minister of Rural Development and Food, Costas Tsiaras, stated that it is time for a radical reorientation of our export model and a reworking of policies in the primary sector. During a discussion with the editor and director of the newspaper Agrenda, Yiannis Panagos, at the Delphi forum announced by the press center of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Minister identified as a strategic priority the building of the resilience of Greek agriculture and livestock, noting in particular the need to protect the sector against the climate crisis, geopolitical upheavals and the pressure of international trade agreements. “The primary sector is going through a critical period and this critical period is dictated by concrete data - first of all by the climate crisis, which has changed the entire approach, all expectations and much more, it brings us face to face with, often, ...