Latvian livestock breeders on Tuesday, December 3, in protest against the planned reforms, arranged a protest of the Building of the Ministry of Agriculture in Riga, reports ERR.
As noted by the Chairman of the Board of the Society of Livestock Managers, Raymond Yakovitskis, the Ministry of Land of the Ministry of Land of the Ministry of Law is going to make a number of changes to regulatory acts, after which payments that farmers deduct the food service (PVS) will almost double, and the so-called export tax on large horned is introduced. Cattle.
Officials promote these innovations without consulting with the industry and without taking into account their influence on the competitiveness of Latvian livestock breeders in Europe.
Farmers do not suit plans for their expense to increase the PVS budget, several times increasing the fee for certificates that the Service prescribes on exported animals. They are also unhappy with the introduction of a new payment.
Liversters indicate that the volume of work for the PVS inspectors has not grown in recent years, but has been reduced due to the work of the livestock exporters themselves: the system of accounting is digitalized, and most of the work with the data is performed by the owners of the cows.
plans to charge a fee for calves, starting from three months of age, will undermine the competitiveness of Latvian farmers in the European market, the industry participants say.
Lature of cattle in Latvia is an export -oriented sphere of agriculture, so the use of a new tax directly threatens its survival.
“I really feel sorry that not only us were misleading, but, obviously, the Minister of Agriculture Armand Krause, who is convinced that the discussions about these changes were” for several months. “Unfortunately, in this case the desired is given out as real “, – said Raymond Yakovitskis.