Farmers for meeting with Mitsotakis: “Red line to get cotton out of Thessaly”

Their meeting with the Prime Minister was completed with institutional agricultural bodies stating satisfaction except for certain points. According to the farmers, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has asked for immediate payment of compensation, to provide a solution to Lake Carla and have noted that cotton must not leave Thessaly and that it also refers to the issues facing fishermen. “For us it is a red line to leave the cotton from Thessaly,” said the President of the Inter-Egyptian Organization of Cotton, Euthymios Fotininos after the meeting. He said the Dutch company in the master plan for Thessaly made a proposal on cotton and added that “we will answer with studies from universities that cotton is not so much aquifer as they say and that it should remain on the plain.” The president of ETHEA, Paul Satolias, asked his side that compensation be paid directly to the Thessalian farmers, so that they would have liquidity in view of the new growing season. He also called for the immediate restoration of the damage to the fields and stood at Lake Carla which, as he stressed, “no producer can cultivate” adding that “as long as it takes for the fields to become farmable again, they must have an income.” Finally, the President of the coastal fishing Magnesia, Panagiotis Perakis, said that during the meeting with the Prime Minister the evidence was requested to be sent to my data once a month and not every day as it stands to date. It also called for the abolition of the profession fee and the abolition of ‘complete traffic’ on vessels as he said. Finally, the Prime Minister raised the problem with the mammals that fishermen face. “ There have been some steps and they have gradually told us that there will be others ” he concluded.