MPs split over vine growers selling grapes

“The vine growers having qualitative products do not find it difficult to sell their grapes,” Communist MP Dmitri Todoroglo, deputy chair of agriculture committee, said on the parliament's floor on Thursday, Info-Prim Neo reports. He has argued the repeated refusal of the Communists faction to hear a report by the Agriculture Ministry on the situation in agriculture and the hardships the farmers find in selling their grapes, as opposition MPs demand. Dmitri Todoroglo has aid he reached the conclusion after listening to farmers, representatives of the Ministry, of Moldova-Vin agency and of the Customs Service. “The work of the Agriculture Minister would be way more efficient, if he visited the countryside more often, instead of coming to the Parliament every day,” Todoroglo said. The proposal of the Democratic Party to call for the Agriculture Minister has been backed only by Moldova Noastra, Social-Democratic MPs and unaffiliated Vlad Filat, but it was culled by the Communist majority.