Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food (Greece)

The Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food (Greek: Υπουργείο Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Τροφίμων) is the government department that oversees agriculture in Greece. The current minister is Evangelos Apostolou of Syriza.

History

The Ministry was formerly known as the Ministry of Rural Development and Food from 2001 to 2015. During the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, the ministry was headed by an Alternate Minister, and in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, the Ministry was refounded as the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food.

List of Ministers of Agriculture

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
Georgios Drys	24 October 2001		Panhellenic Socialist Movement

List of Ministers of Rural Development and Food

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
Savvas Tsitouridis	10 March 2004	23 September 2004	New Democracy
Evangelos Basiakos	23 September 2004	19 September 2007	New Democracy
Alexandros Kontos	19 September 2007	7 January 2009	New Democracy
Sotirios Hatzigakis	8 January 2009	7 October 2009	New Democracy
Katerina Batzeli	7 October 2009	7 September 2010	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Kostas Skandalidis	7 September 2010	17 May 2012	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Napoleon Maravegias	17 May 2012	21 June 2012
el	21 June 2012	10 June 2014	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
el	10 June 2014	27 January 2015	New Democracy

List of Alternate Ministers of Agricultural Development and Food

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
Evangelos Apostolou	27 January 2015	28 August 2015	Syriza
Dimitrios Melas	28 August 2015	23 September 2015	Independent

List of Ministers of Agricultural Development and Food

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
Evangelos Apostolou	23 September 2015	Incumbent	Syriza

External links

• Ministry website