Row over “promised” state support breaks out between Farmers’ Markets and Agriculture Ministry

A row over state support has broken out between the Czech Republic’s Association of Farmers’ Markets and the Ministry of Agriculture. The association, which brings together markets in Prague and elsewhere in the country, says a former deputy minister, Radek Braum, promised to provide it with support amounting to thousands of crowns a year in 2012. However, the ministry told the Czech News Agency no such pledge had been made. It also said that it had supported individual events put on by members of the Association of Farmers’ Markets.

Author: Ian Willoughby