In mid-June, the farmers' association Farmers' Saeima raised the alarm that demand for local fruit and vegetables in Latvia has fallen by an average of 30% this year and that warehouses are stocked with large quantities of Latvian-grown cucumbers and tomatoes, as supermarket chains prefer to offer imported products to shoppers.
Mārtiņš Trons, a board member of Farmers' Saeima, said at the time that one of the Ministry of Finance's arguments for increasing the value-added tax (VAT) ...