The fruit growers who suffered losses as a result of this spring’s frosts fear they will be unable to collect the promised compensations. However, officials of the Ministry of Agriculture assure that money will be provided, but with a slight delay, IPN reports.

Acting head of UniAgroProtect Federation Alexandru Slusari transmitted a message from fruit growers to the press. This says the promises made by the minister of agriculture in public, before the press, remain undelivered. “The regulations that define the method of providing compensations haven’t been approved yet. Financing sources haven’t been identified. The state showed once again that agriculture is a strategic sector on paper only,” he stated.

Mihail Suvac, head of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Vegetal Products Division, has told IPN that the fruit growers will receive the promised compensations, but a little later. “The draft Government decision is being coordinated and will be discussed in the next meetings. The National Anticorruption Center has some objections that need to be examined,” he said.

The frosts of April 26-27 this year affected a part of the fruit harvest.