Ministry of Rural Development and Food
Υπουργείο Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Τροφίμων
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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	www.minagric.gr/index.php/en/

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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.

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)

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

Rural development and food (since September 2015)

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]