DIKO MP Zacharias Koulias said in a statement that today they had brought up the issue of the pasture in Klaydia for the group farming that exists there. He said it has now clarified the issue that the pasture will remain as a pasture.
"It was a progressive methodology, which we were implementing after 1974 and there are various group farming or pastures, which were largely helped by the Co-operative Credit Societies at that time and they were created. Some were maintained and they are among the few that we have now in Larnaca. It is the collective farming in Klaydia, which will remain. It is an understanding with the officials that it will be registered as a Cooperative and will remain with the displaced people. It is a progressive system," he added.
He also said that there was also a discussion on the issue of group cultivation in Kosi, where a large area was cultivated by private individuals, but the money was distributed to beneficiary displaced persons, where this list was drawn up on humanitarian and agricultural grounds.
"In this list are wives of missing persons, children of missing persons or old farmers who at the time when they came after the refugee flight were old and couldn't get into farming , they were put into this group farming and they get a small amount, but for each refugee it's about €200 or €250 or €150 per year. This year some people had the bright idea to withhold the money and not distribute it," he said."
"We have written about this before, they have yet to make a decision and it occurred to the gentlemen who took this position, the Home Office basically, to seek an opinion from the Legal Service. The opinion is yet to come," he added."
He said, "I say that this methodology that they came up with is wrong, no opinion is needed."
"They were beneficiaries. It was a good system that was in place and they have an obligation to distribute the money to the beneficiaries of the Aradippou-Kossi group cultivation," he added.
Source: CNA
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