Problems in the agricultural sector that have not been adequately addressed

1. Strategic agricultural problems, including structural ones, both in production and processing. A large part of the rural population has been given the illusion that support payments will be able to ensure their livelihood in the countryside in the future, managing a dozen or so hectares of land and keeping a few livestock. This hinders both the possible retraining of people, which could provide them with higher and more stable incomes in the future, and the release of land as a production resource, which would allow for the further development of economically sound agriculture.
2. There is a lack of a vision for agricultural development and a plan to achieve it. This is especially true in the areas of renewable resources and bioenergy.
3. Unwillingness to clearly separate support measures and financial resources for agricultural development and addressing social issues in rural areas. One purse and the desire to please everyone creates unnecessary tension and conflict situations between different interest groups.
4. A crop and livestock risk insurance program has not been developed in five years.
5. Situation in the land market. There is a lack of support programs for land acquisition. Large areas of agricultural land have fallen into the hands of real estate agents. This inadequately raises the price of land and hinders access to land resources for farm expansion.
6. Failure to achieve significant success in defending the interests of Latvian agriculture in the Council of Europe. This has caused financial, but mainly moral, damage to the farming community and the country as a whole.
7. Unhealthy situation in the dairy sector, which hinders the development of the sector and its competitiveness in the Baltic market.
8. Failure to care about the prestige of agriculture in society. In the eyes of the wider public, the industry has turned into a black hole where the rest of society's money is thrown in pointlessly, without result.
9. Unsatisfactory situation in agricultural education, starting from the lowest level, ending with the quality and prestige of higher education.
10. Inability to create equal competitive conditions for Latvian farmers with the financial resources at the disposal of the state, at least with the farmers of their closest neighbors – Lithuania and Estonia.
11. Late information about the PVTM reform, which has caused misunderstanding and confusion among farmers, as well as the still unclear conditions of the reform, which hinders planning the necessary financial flow and making strategic decisions in the further development of farms.