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Ministry of Rural Development and Food (Greece)
Government ministry of Greece From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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)
Rural development and food (alternates, January–September 2015)
Rural development and food (since September 2015)
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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]
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