The Minister of Agriculture explained at a press conference that the member states near the Ukrainian border were flooded with Ukrainian grain, causing a very serious internal market disturbance

After the meeting of the agriculture ministers of the EU member states, the minister said that the solidarity corridors initiated by the EU, which were meant to facilitate the delivery of grain stuck in Ukraine to Africa and the Middle East, did not work as intended.

István Nagy said that six EU member states - Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria - requested extraordinary support from the European Commission to solve the situation, but only Poland, Romania and Bulgaria will receive this financial assistance of more than 53 million euros .

In his opinion, the committee's decision is seriously discriminatory and based on a professional mistake.

"The committee claims that the grain coming from Ukraine does not have a crushing effect on grain market prices, however, while the exchange price in Rotterdam hovers around 300 euros/ton, it has fallen to 217 euros in Hungary. We cannot leave this unaddressed, nor the serious professional mistake that the arrival of Ukrainian grain did not cause this large price drop," declared István Nagy.

He emphasized that he had asked the committee to review the position. "We have proven with statistical data and numbers that the Hungarian farmers suffer enormous losses because the grain entered through the solidarity corridor does not go to the destination country, but remains in Hungary. The committee made a political decision, not a professional one," he declared.

He added: the Hungarian government is doing everything in its power to get the committee to change its position, and Hungarian farmers cannot count on anyone but their own national government.

Source: Magyar Hírlap

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