Differences continue to exist between animal breeders and meat traders in Volos, with the former talking about unfair competition. As gegonota.news reports, animal breeders are protesting because, they say, the market is flooded with lambs imported from Romania, which are sold as domestic.
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Traders, taking advantage of the legislation that stipulates that the animal’s origin stamp is optional, bring lambs from Romania and sell them to slaughterhouses as Greek, as the president of animal breeders in the Volos region complains. “They bought them for less than 9 euros and sell them for 16 euros per kilogram. It’s a scam and I’ve asked for checks for both origin falsification and shameless specula. 50% of butchers meet Easter needs this way, but this is at the expense of farmers and consumers. We don’t have the right to release names, but this is happening. The checks started today,” said the president of the animal breeders in the Volos region, Rador reports.
The selling price of lamb in Romania, as reported by the publication, is around 4.5 euros, since due to the mild winter there are many lambs available and at a weight sought by the Greek market.
Thus, the merchants of Thessaly appear to be doing very profitable business, while the livestock farmers are suffering financially after losing 80,000 animals to the floods last year.
It was previously reported that, shortly before Easter, both farmers and consumers complain that many of the lambs sold as Greek come from Romania and that the price is quite “peppery”.
As the farmers in the Thessaly region stated, the storm “Daniel” at the end of last summer (as a result of which a large part of the agricultural land was flooded and a lot of animals drowned n.trans.) had the effect of reducing the herds of sheep in the area, but the butchers do not seem to have been affected. “Where do all these lambs come from? Our lambs certainly cannot cover the demand that exists in the run-up to Easter,” the farmers say.
Speaking about the price at which the Easter steak will be purchased, the same breeders noted that this year consumers will have to put their “hand deep in their pocket”.
“The expenses are many, the accounts don’t come out, somehow we have to live too” they claim, adding that “the price will definitely be higher than the 10 euros per kilogram that the government is talking about”.
