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Slovakia unhappy with European aid given to domestic farmers

Xinhua, September 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Slovakia will receive 2.46 million euros (2.78 million U.S. dollars) from a total package of 500 million euros aimed at aiding European farmers, according to a decision made at an informal session of the Council of the EU for Agriculture in Luxembourg on Tuesday.

Slovak Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Lubomir Jahnatek said: "This absolutely fails to address the given situation, and it's really a terribly insignificant amount."

The overall aid sum was divided into 420 million euros earmarked for the milk and pork sectors and 80 million euros for humanitarian aid for migrants, the propagation of European agricultural products, storage and the process of seeking out new markets.

Jahnatek criticized the allocated sum as being inadequate at the session and for future reference proposed that employment rates in regions where agriculture makes up the only type of production should also be taken into account.

He also drew attention to margins that need to be tackled, claiming that Slovak primary producers operate with losses of more than 20 percent. Endit