The agency stated on Wednesday that 121 farmers had donated nearly 3.9 thousand tonnes of apples and have been compensated HRK 12 million, while 166 mandarin growers have been given 8.8 million kuna for having donated 2.3 thousand tonnes of mandarins.
The apples and mandarins withdrawn from the market were given to social welfare centres, pre-school institutions, primary and secondary schools, hospitals, prisons and humanitarian organisations.
The compensation measure was envisaged as emergency aid for EU member-states' farmers hit by the Russian embargo,
(EUR 1 = HRK 7.6