Ministry of Rural Development and Food (Greece)

The Ministry of Rural Development and Food (Greek: Υπουργείο Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Τροφίμων) is the government department that oversees agriculture in Greece. The incumbent minister is Konstantinos Tsiaras of New Democracy.

Ministry of Rural Development and Food
Υπουργείο Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Τροφίμων
Coat of arms of the Hellenic Republic
Incumbent Konstantinos Tsiaras since 14 June 2024
Appointer	Prime Minister of Greece
Inaugural holder	Savvas Tsitouridis
Formation	2004
Website	minagric.gr

History

The ministry was established in 2004 upon the inauguration of the First Cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis, replacing the older Ministry of Agriculture.^[1]

It was demoted to the level of a sub-ministry within the Ministry of Productive Reconstruction, the Environment and Energy in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, before being restored as a full ministry in his second cabinet a few months later.

List of ministers

Rural development and food (2004–2015)

Name	Took office	Left office	Party
Savvas Tsitouridis	10 March 2004	23 September 2004	New Democracy
Evangelos Basiakos	23 September 2004	19 September 2007
Alexandros Kontos	19 September 2007	7 January 2009
Sotirios Hatzigakis	8 January 2009	7 October 2009
Katerina Batzeli	7 October 2009	7 September 2010	PASOK
Kostas Skandalidis	7 September 2010	17 May 2012
Napoleon Maravegias [el]	17 May 2012	21 June 2012	Independent
Athanasios Tsaftaris [el]	21 June 2012	10 June 2014	PASOK
Giorgos Karasmanis [el]	10 June 2014	27 January 2015	New Democracy

Rural development and food (alternates, January–September 2015)

Name	Took office	Left office	Party
Evangelos Apostolou	27 January 2015	27 August 2015	Syriza
Dimitrios Melas	28 August 2015	21 September 2015	Independent

Rural development and food (since September 2015)

Name	Took office	Left office	Party
Evangelos Apostolou	23 September 2015	29 August 2018	Syriza
Stavros Arachovitis [el]	29 August 2018	9 July 2019
Makis Voridis	9 July 2019	5 January 2021	New Democracy
Spilios Livanos	5 January 2021	7 February 2022
Georgios Georgantas [el]	7 February 2022	26 May 2023
Georgios Tsakiris [el]	26 May 2023	27 June 2023	Independent
Lefteris Avgenakis [el]	27 June 2023	14 June 2024	New Democracy
Konstantinos Tsiaras	14 June 2024	Incumbent

Agencies

• Plant Health Inspection Service^[2]
• The Benaki Phytopathological Institute conducts research in plant protection and plant health. It was founded with a donation by Emmanouil Benakis and is named after him.^[3]