Europe has extended Russia's boycott this week. For fruit growers (agriculture in general) the consequences are killer. These decisions are no longer acceptable. As a grower said: "Our apples and pears are the weapons against Russia, but these weapons aren't being financed!"
As local government official of agriculture and European parliament member, Hilde Vautmans reached a few hundred fruit growers who were debating on the crisis on Wednesday evening. Veerle Heeren, CD&V mayor of the largest fruit region in Belgium and federal member of parliament is engaging to support this case, and Ludwig Vandenhove, spa-green deputy of the province of Limburg and former mayor of Sint-Truiden, offers his full collaboration to ensure - over all political party borders - that the Belgian Fruit cultivation may have a future.
