The Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment (MARD) regrets the attack launched today by the Cyprus Cheese Makers' Association against Minister Kostas Kadis, with undocumented and misleading reports.
Particularly surprising is the Association's report that "the repeated statements of the Minister of Agriculture about unused stocks led to pressure on cheese makers from abroad to reduce the price of halalouli", when the Association itself had recently congratulated and thanked the Minister, before the Agriculture Committee of the Parliament, for his plea to all stakeholders to avoid discussing stocks.
With regard to the Association's appeal to the Minister to submit a proposal for the management of steel mills that satisfies the principles accepted by all stakeholders, the Ministry of Agriculture has noted that in the many hours of repeated meetings held on the issue with the participation of all stakeholders, the Minister had put forward a number of alternative consensual proposals, which always clashed with the maximalist positions of both the Cheesemakers' Association and the Cyprus Cow Farmers' Association.
Finally, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development points out that it is ready to discuss all the data concerning the production of products marketed under the name of halloumi, and not selectively the data that the Cheese Makers' Association wishes to present.
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