Tag: tripunovski
Economy 29.09.24 | 13:56

Tripunovski: rice prices have still not been set

Agriculture Minister Cvetan Tripunovski said that the regulated price of rice for the current harvest has still not been set. The Government decided to have the Agency for Commodities Reserves change its bylaws and programs for 2025, and it will purchase rice to stock up our reserves. Initial indications...
Macedonia 13.04.24 | 13:29

Major drop in rice cultivation due to poor irrigation policies

Cultivated land in Kocani, Macedonia’s main rice growing region, has declined by almost a quarter, warned interim Deputy Agriculture Minister Cvetan Tripunovski from VMRO-DPMNE, who said that Minister Ljupco Nikolovski has failed to keep the irrigation system in order. Yesterday Nikolovski was...
News Economy 22.05.23 | 16:56

Tripunovski: The State Bureau of Statistics corroborated the fallacy of SDSM agricultural policies

The State Bureau of Statistics confirmed on Monday what we were saying all these years – that the Government applies erroneous agricultural policies, wrote Cvetan Tripunovski from VMRO-DPMNE in a Facebook post. “The total value of purchased agricultural products in the first three months...
Economy 21.03.22 | 12:23

The Government plans to allow traders to export the grain it secured from Serbia for profit

Instead of placing the newly purchased reserves of grain from Serbia in the strategic reserves, the Kovacevski Government intends to allow companies close to the ruling SDSM party to trade with the grains, said VMRO-DPMNE official Cvetan Tripunovski. Instead of keeping our reserves full with wheat, Government...
Macedonia 14.11.21 | 13:27

Energy crisis: Lake Tikves is almost drained

Lake Tikves, one of the artificial lakes built on Crna river that provide hydro energy, is almost empty. VMRO-DPMNE official Cvetan Tripunovski held a press conference on the shore of the lake today, to raise alarm about the poor state it and other such artificial lakes are in. Water levels are just...
Economy 26.03.20 | 12:14

Tripunovski calls on the public to buy Macedonia – grown food

Deputy Agriculture Minister Cvetan Tripunoski called on farmers to maintain and, if possible, increase their food production despite the coronavirus epidemic. He urged on the consumers to make sure they purchase Macedonian made products and support domestic producers. In these difficult times for our...
Macedonia 06.03.20 | 11:02

Tripunovski: Despite critical lake levels, they are still being emptied to produce electricity

We keep pumping water out of our lakes to produce electricity despite the water levels being at their worst in decades, said Interim Deputy Agriculture Minister Cvetan Tripunovski. A number of lakes, including Prespa and Mavrovo, are at critically low levels, after the exceptionally dry Autumn. This...
Macedonia 02.03.20 | 12:02

Tripunovski informs the citizens that for nearly half of 2019 they were purchasing untested food

Interim Deputy Agriculture Minister Cvetan Tripunovski has warned the public that the food and veterinary inspection has not conducted any work for more than five months, which he says has endangered public safety. Between June and November 2019 there was no monitoring on the part of the Food and Veterinary...
Macedonia 26.02.20 | 19:04

Tripunovski inspects the environmental damage done to lake Prespa, says the situation is critical

Interim Deputy Agriculture Minister Cvetan Tripunovski went to lake Prespa today to inspect the damage caused by the badly receding water levels. Alarming footage shared recently shows beaches that would normally be on the shoreline now completely dry. The situation is alarming. We are losing our natural...
Macedonia 07.02.20 | 14:50

VIDEO: Novaci citizens booed their Mayor as he used the imposed name “North Macedonia”

During the visit by interim Deputy Agriculture Minister Cvetan Tripunovski to the rural municipality of Novaci, Novaci Mayor Ljube Kuzmanovski asked that the imposed name “North Macedonia” is used when referring to Macedonia. Tripunovski, who is from VMRO-DPMNE, uses Macedonia, while Mayor...
Macedonia 13.01.20 | 13:19

Following the publication of the threatening audio tape, VMRO official says that the Agriculture Ministry is operating as a mafia association

Interim Deputy Agriculture Minister Cvetan Tripunovski strongly condemned the Minister Trajan Dimkovski, after it was revealed that one of his advisers was issuing death threats to  a fishery inspector in Ohrid. The chilling tape was revealed by the Lider news site. In it, the adviser Tome Mojsovski,...
Macedonia 12.08.19 | 16:58

VMRO calls on the Zaev Government to stop hiding the facts about the cases of anthrax near Kicevo

Following the attempts by the Healthcare Ministry to conceal the cases of anthrax among animals, VMRO-DPMNE official Cvetan Tripunovski says that the two weeks delay in reporting the infection has endangered lives. The Ministry only revealed the data about the spread of the deadly disease after the opposition...
Macedonia 06.07.19 | 18:38

Key public irrigation system left penniless, VMRO warns

The 500 employees of the Vodostopanstvo irrigation systems management company are left without salaries for two months, VMRO-DPMNE said in a press release. Cvetan Tripunovski from the opposition warns that, while the Agriculture Ministry is organizing pricey cocktails and the recently removed minister...

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