Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic urged the European Commission to take restrictive measures to reduce grain imports from Ukraine into their markets and to protect the interests of local agricultural producers. It has been reported TASS Referring to the testimony of Istvan Nagy, head of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture.
“Ukrainian grain to North Africa and the Middle East is stuck in Europe, while Brussels remains idle, causing serious market disruptions,” he said.
According to Nagy, Ukrainian farmers enter the region at lower cost because they produce their grain at low cost and using methods not common in the EU. The minister noted that honey and poultry meat from Ukraine at low prices export Hungarian products from traditional export markets.
Nagy added that at the moment no response has been received from Brussels on this issue.
Polish farmers before blocked The road near the Ukrainian border protests the large and poorly controlled shipment of Ukrainian grain.