Constantin also said the ministry is working on a draft act aimed to compensate farmers for damaged crops, adding drought has affected two crops of utmost importance: wheat and sunflower.
The minister said SMEs that will register losses this year, compared to the average of the past three years, will receive compensations from the state budget that will cover 80% of their losses. He went on saying that small farmers who are not included in the category of SMEs, will receive EUR7,500 each as compensations for damaged crops.
Laurentiu Baciu, head of the League of Associations of Agricultural Producers in Romania (LAPAR), has recently said farmers are calling on authorities to declare state of emergency because of drought, which entails, he added, halting grain exports, since 80% of corn crops have been damaged.
Agriculture Ministry state secretary Daniel Botanoiu, in turn, said authorities already took several measures to counter the effects of drought, adding there is no need to declare state of emergency.