Agriculture, Livestock and Food
In the meeting held at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the person in charge of Aragonese farmers and ranchers has not spoken about essential issues such as animal health or the increase in the price of the shopping basket due to erroneous policies that punish farmers and ranchers
Angel Samper participates in the meeting of councilors of autonomous communities in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and FoodAgriculture, Livestock and Food
Today the councilors of agriculture, livestock, fishing and food from all the Spanish autonomous communities have met at MAPA at the request of Luis Planas. A meeting without an agenda, an issue that already produced a certain degree of tension among those gathered.
The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food of the Government of Aragon, Angel Samper, attended the meeting with the clear idea of once again demanding the declaration of mandatory vaccination throughout Spain against EHE. “The protocol for action in animal health is the responsibility of the ministry, it cannot stand aside and confront all communities with such an important issue by transferring that responsibility to them. The laboratories are working on the vaccine, it is now the ministry that must take the step so that farmers can reach spring with solutions without seeing their animals suffer or die.”
Epizootic hemorrhagic disease has been a topic that Councilor Samper has conveyed, together with the communities of Valencia, Extremadura and Castilla y León, to Luis Planas on several occasions by letter or in person. This disease, especially in cattle, has had an incidence in Aragon in 400 animals. The ranchers ask for aid that “the Government of Aragon cannot give because it would break a fundamental norm which is that of animal health. There is no need to play politics. It is the ministry that must declare the disease and the use of the vaccine. The communities do not have the powers to do so, hence our insistence from the first moment,” he states.
Councilor Samper has also been emphatic in reminding the minister of the need to put ideology aside “from our department we defend the sector from the first day, without ideology, we have always said that with things like eating we do not play games and it seems “That the ministry is trying to confront us between autonomous communities.” He defended at the meeting “that as administrations we must be closer to scientific endorsements than to political ideas. Today there are fragile families who cannot buy the food they would like due to its high prices. This is because ideology dictates meaningless agrarian policies that penalize farmers and ranchers with administrative obstacles, impositions on planting, etc. that cause food prices to rise.”
Angel Samper recalled at the ministerial meeting that, from Aragon, work is being done to promote intensive and extensive livestock farming, the latter in a complicated moment of life. “For a decade, extensive livestock farming has been dying. We are talking about the greatest environmental exponent that exists. This type of production cleans and maintains the balance of nature. From our ministry together with Valencia, Extremadura and Castilla y León we are going to support and promote it.”
There has been talk about the CAP and its consequences due to the excessive demands that add meaningless regulations to farmers and ranchers. “We tell Minister Planas that we will support him as long as he puts aside the environmentalist ideology that comes to him from Minister Ribera and that does so much damage to the farmers and ranchers of our country,” concluded counselor Angel Samper. He added to the meeting the need to make the CAP more flexible, for a communication strategy to rethink insurance policy towards the balance of the system and seamless universalization through regulation. The Aragonese councilor added to the meeting the topic of the meaninglessness of the use of phytosanitary products or the fiscal management of the territory.
2023-12-18 15:32:11
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