Opens three crisis ports to control food for farmers – NRK Sogn og Fjordane – Local News, TV and Radio

– This is the situation, no matter the situation, we must all go help, cross the border Nina Manning to the office of Mattilsynet in Måløy.

In the weeks and months In the future, the Måløy vet is ready to control imported foods that can stock farm animals for drought-stricken farmers in southern Norway. Following a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture last Thursday, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority opens border control of food imported from third countries at their checkpoints in Egersund . , Måløy and Ålesund. To this day, there are control stations in Borg and Oslo in the Oslo fjord doing this job

– We know that the Norwegian Food Safety Authority can help to solve quickly the food crisis without becoming too bureaucratic. At the same time, I would like to emphasize that we prefer that farmers get food from Norway as far as possible. Harald Gjein, General Manager of the Food Safety Authority, believes that the need for importation is important and is working to find practical solutions

Can import food from other parts of the earth

The crisp summer has caused the worst food crisis in Norway several times. decades. Norwegian Farming Advisory will be contacted by gray-scale farmers who lack food for tens of thousands of animals.

While peasants bought more fodder from other places in the country earlier in the year,


or the nearest neighbor country, it is almost impossible to get food.

With little access, the Food Safety Authority does not increase imports from third countries judged by the United States, Canada and New Zealand. These are foods that must be approved and verified before farmers can use them.

The food shredder Alf Steinhovden, in Sogn og Fjordane, made his first efforts to hunt at the lowest possible price, which prompted people to buy fodder in the region to which he is opposed. Food Safety Authority.

By opening three new border control stations for food in western Norway, where the situation is particularly difficult, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority hopes to help farmers make the choices the most reasonable. Three new border control stations along the west coast will be able to receive vessels with imported food from countries outside the EU and the EEA in the future. Here from the Måløy control station.

Photo: Nina Manning