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Romania exported 1.06 million tons of wheat and 268,782 tons of corn in last 4 months
Since July 1, 2020 when the farming season 2020-2021 started, until November 8, 2020, Romania exported 1.065 million tons of soft wheat and imported 16.135 tons of wheat, according to official data published by the European Commission on Monday.
EC points out that in the first 4 months of the present season, wheat exports in EU and Great Britain dropped by 24% to 7.84 million tons and imports went up by 10% to 1.10 million tons.
The first wheat exporters in EU were: France (2.198 million tons), Lithuania (1.266 million tons), Latvia (1.182 million tons) and Romania (1.065 million tons).
Agriculture minister: We will include irrigation system as strategic infrastructure
Adrian Oros, the minister of agriculture and rural development, recently declared in Braila, that he intends wit introduce the irrigation system of Romania as strategic infrastructure, to put an end to thefts and destructions.
“The almost 40 million lei per year spent on guard services, could not stop thefts and destruction in the system. That is why, once we begin to rehabilitate this system, we will include it as strategic infrastructure, so nobody could steal and destroy it. Punishments will be serious so that works could progress quickly,” Oros declared.
The minister pointed out that the lack of irrigation systems was seen especially this year when there was a serious, extreme drought and compensations do not represent a long term realistic solution for these situations.
Adrian Oros said that, 6.5 billion euros were allocated through the National resilience and economic relaunch program to be applied as of next year for these works.