Ministry of Rural Development and Food (Greece)

Ministry of Rural Development and Food
Υπουργείο Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Τροφίμων

Coat of arms of the Hellenic Republic

Incumbent
Eleutherios Agkenakes
since 27 June 2023

Appointer| Prime Minister of Greece
Inaugural holder| Savvas Tsitouridis (Minister),

Evangelos Basiakos (Deputy Minister),

Alexandros Kontos (Deputy Minister)
Formation| 2004
Website| {{{1}}}

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 Eleutherios Agkenakes [el] of New Democracy.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 List of ministers
* 2.1 Rural development and food (2004–2015)
* 2.2 Rural development and food (alternates, January–September 2015)
* 2.3 Rural development and food (since September 2015)
* 3 Agencies
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## 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)

Name  | Took office  | Left office  | Party

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Savvas Tsitouridis  | 10 March 2004  | 23 September 2004  | New Democracy
Evangelos Basiakos  | 23 September 2004  | 19 September 2007
Alexandros Kontos  | 19 September 2007  | 7 January 2009
Sotirios Hatzigakis  | 8 January 2009  | 7 October 2009
Katerina Batzeli  | 7 October 2009  | 7 September 2010  | PASOK
Kostas Skandalidis  | 7 September 2010  | 17 May 2012
17 May 2012  | 21 June 2012  | Independent
21 June 2012  | 10 June 2014  | PASOK
10 June 2014  | 27 January 2015  | New Democracy

### Rural development and food (alternates, January–September 2015)

Name  | Took office  | Left office  | Party

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Evangelos Apostolou  | 27 January 2015  | 27 August 2015  | Syriza
Dimitrios Melas  | 28 August 2015  | 21 September 2015  | Independent

### Rural development and food (since September 2015)

Name  | Took office  | Left office  | Party

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|
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Evangelos Apostolou  | 23 September 2015  | 29 August 2018  | Syriza
29 August 2018  | 9 July 2019
Makis Voridis  | 9 July 2019  | 5 January 2021  | New Democracy
Spilios Livanos  | 5 January 2021  | 7 February 2022
8 February 2022  | 25 May 2023
George Tsakires  | 26 May 2023  | 26 June 2023  | \-  | Caretaker
Eleutherios Avgkenakes  | 27 June 2023  |  | New Democracy  | Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis

## 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]

## References

1. ↑ Υ 1/10.3.2004
2. ↑ "Plant Health Inspection Service" (in en). 2013-04-05. http://www.minagric.gr/index.php/en/farmer-menu-2/plantprotection-menu/planthealthinpec-menu.
3. ↑ "Benaki Phytopathological Institute". http://en.bpi.gr/.

## External links

* Official website

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