Rural Development and Food Μinister Spilios Livanos, in an interview with SKAI TV on Monday, presented the main priorities of the ministry, noting that the goal is to subsidize infrastructure, increase exports, train farmers and promote the “Greek Diet” brand, ANA reports.
He also spoke about the new EU Common Agricultural Policy, which will bring 19.7 billion euros to Greece, and underlined the need for judicious investment in infrastructure.
Livanos stressed: “The priority of the ministry is the promotion, worldwide, of the Greek Diet brand. Greece has the privilege of producing excellent products. These products must acquire an identity, they must acquire a branding as the Greek diet. We have a wealth to consume ourselves and to consume it in large quantities as part of a healthy diet but also as a part of our culture, our tradition, and our history, which we must connect with our tourism. Tourists can become the best ambassadors of the Greek diet. But we must understand, first of all, in our families, in our schools, that we must prefer Greek products, not out of nationalism, but because they are better in quality. The primary and secondary sector, which I have the honor to serve, is essentially the driving force for the Greek economy to start at another level. But it must be linked to tourism, culture, and our health policy. If we succeed and create this new framework, internally and then externally, I believe in a few years we will work miracles.”
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