The Moldovan Government has missed the chance to keep under its control the food prices, which are skyrocketing, following the world crisis in this area. This is the opinion of the leader of the Democratic Party from Moldova (PDM), Dumitru Diacov, Info-Prim Neo reports. Wednesday at a news conference, Dumitru Diacov has said in the situation when the inflation has already jumped over the figure forecast by the Finance Ministry (FM), and “the food crisis” gains momentum, one gets the impression that the Government “looses the control over the situation and less and less levers to change anything.” In Diacov's opinion, the latest price rises for such products as sugar, rice and sunflower oil are the consequences “of the half-measures or even indolence of the Government.” Moreover, the Government has the chance to make huge gaffes, because we're already in the electoral campaign. That is why, the Democratic Party asks the Government to take concrete, pragmatic, even non-populist measures, to stop the crisis, said the Moldovan Democrats' leader. Present at the conference, Valeriu Bulgari, the president of the Farmers Associations Union Uniagroprotect, a top member of the PD, has pointed out the main problems of the Moldovan farmers at this stage. Among them: the sudden increase of the fuel prices, small subsidies, high loan interests and the small number of investment projects. “As long as these issues are solved through traditional Moldovan ways: using the money of the International Monetary Fund and of the World Banl, nothing is going to change,” Bulgari said. He reproached the National Bank and the Finance Ministry for not having developed yet a possible scenario for short and middle terms concerning the development of the agricultural sector. “The agricultural sector the last years has lost over 300,000 qualified workers, what endangers the food safety of the country,” Valeriu Bulgari added. In the opinion of Ion Paduraru, another PD top member and former Justice minister, from the legal viewpoint, the situation in agriculture can be solved through the state's giving up the idea of consolidating the land plots, what he describes as a return to the old collective farms. “The food crisis” and “the prices war” are to be discussed by the PD in July at national-level consultations to be joined by ministers, independent economists and specialized NGOs, Info Prim Neo reports.