Crisis: 1.5 mln Greeks "interested" in return to farming
Saturday, 24 March 2012
(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, MARCH 21 - More than 1.5 million Greeks living in the major urban centres of Athens and Thessaloniki have expressed an "interest" in returning to the countryside and taking up farming as a way of making a living, Athens News Agency reports quoting deputy Agricultural Development and Foods Minister Yiannis Drivelegas as saying. In statements during the signature of the first contracts for the lease of public land in Central Macedonia for use by farmers and livestock breeders, he said this was discovered in a survey conducted that the ministry that is due to be presented in the next few days. Other officials noted that the process to lease state land for farming began 20 weeks ago and that every Thursday there would be new posts of land available for lease on the website of the agency in charge of payment, control and providing information on Community aid OPEKEPE. The same officials said they had already received 4,000 applications for leases and hoped to have leased up to 10,000 plots of agricultural land amounting to 10,000 hectares by the summer.
Posts
