The distributors of seeds have about 100 tonnes of corn seeds and 30-35 tonnes of sunflower seeds available and are ready to import more if need be. The topic was discussed in a meeting at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, IPN reports.
According to a press release of the Ministry, the meeting with distributors of phytosanitary products and seeds was convened to ask them examine the possibility of assisting agricultural producers that could need to sow again some fields or to apply additional phytosanitary measures following the heavy snowfalls of last week.
The farmers who attended the meeting said they do not possess the financial resources needed to purchase seeds and phytosanitary products and, in this connecting, asked that the Ministry of Agriculture should draft a bill on natural calamities.
Specialists of the Ministry, in concert with agricultural scientists, formulated a series of recommendations for agricultural producers, which should be applied in the immediate future to reduce the risk of losing harvests following the tempest of April 20 and 21. Currently, local commissions are gauging the extent of the damage caused in agriculture.
