Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food (Greece)


The Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food is the government department that oversees agriculture in Greece. The current minister is Makis Voridis of New Democracy.

History

The ministry was created in 2004 by the government of Kostas Karamanlis, replacing the older Ministry of Agriculture.
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

NameTook OfficeLeft OfficeParty
24 October 2001PASOK

List of Ministers of Agricultural Development and Food

NameTook OfficeLeft OfficeParty
Savvas Tsitouridis10 March 200423 September 2004New Democracy
Evangelos Basiakos23 September 200419 September 2007New Democracy
19 September 20077 January 2009New Democracy
Sotirios Hatzigakis8 January 20097 October 2009New Democracy
Katerina Batzeli7 October 20097 September 2010PASOK
Kostas Skandalidis7 September 201017 May 2012PASOK
17 May 201221 June 2012Independent
21 June 201210 June 2014PASOK
10 June 201427 January 2015New Democracy

List of Alternate Ministers of Agricultural Development and Food

NameTook OfficeLeft OfficeParty
Evangelos Apostolou27 January 201527 August 2015Syriza
28 August 201521 September 2015Independent

List of Ministers of Agricultural Development and Food

NameTook OfficeLeft OfficeParty
Evangelos Apostolou23 September 201529 August 2018Syriza
29 August 20189 July 2019Syriza
Makis Voridis9 July 2019IncumbentNew Democracy