Asaja Castilla y León Urges Maximum Subsidy for Agricultural Insurance to Support Professional Farmers

Asaja Castilla y León has requested that the public subsidy for agricultural insurance reach the maximum allowed by Brussels, estimated at 70 percent, giving priority to professional farmers, who live one hundred percent from the countryside, for whom to subscribe the insurance ” It is as essential as having a tractor, and it works as a small mattress to continue producing in the event of an accident”.

For Donaciano Dujo, regional president of ASAJA, the administrations have to give an “urgent” response, reinforcing agricultural insurance with more financing. The first, he has pointed out, is the Ministry, since it is “perhaps the main agrarian policy of the country”, but also the Junta, “which has to offer its coverage where national support does not reach”.

Asaja Castilla y León has indicated that Agroseguro’s decision to apply “important” increases in insurance rates for arable crops has “turned off alarm bells” in agriculture throughout the country, especially in Castilla y León, the Autonomous Community with more insured area.

Despite the opposition from the sector and the autonomous communities, the 2023 Plan will enter into force this next hiring campaign, which begins in autumn, since Agroseguro had the backing of ENESA (State Agrarian Insurance Entity), the Consortium of Insurance Compensation and the General Directorate of Insurance of the Ministry of Economy.

The ASAJA-Castilla y León board of directors, meeting this Friday in Valladolid, has analyzed the impact of this review on the extensive arable insurance rates of Castilla y León, which will mean an average increase of 35 percent, going from 22 euros per hectare up to 30 euros.

The organization has warned, however, that “the averages are misleading, since in a few regions nothing will rise while in other regions of Castilla y León the increases will exceed 100 percent.”