Significant reaction of the Government of Castilla-La Mancha to the strong protests by farmers and ranchers of the last few days. Following the announcement this Wednesday that the president of the Board, Emiliano García-Pagewill ask the European Union to relax environmental requirements for the primary sector and expand the use of fertilizers, this Thursday The regional Executive has also announced the granting of preferential loans to provide liquidity to professionals..
This is what the Minister of Agriculture of the Board said at a press conference in the Castilian-La Mancha Parliament, Julián Martínez Lizánwho has announced that they are leavingsign agreements with financial entities in the region to grant farmers and ranchers loans at preferential rates, in line with agreements from previous years. It is intended like this address one of the main agrarian demands, which was the need to have liquidity on farms.
Martínez Lizán has also reported that throughout this month the Castilla-La Mancha field will receive the aid to compensate for the drought that the Government of Spain launched, with a total of 72 million euros for the region, which will be the one that receives the largest amount of money for this concept, according to the counselor. Another 30 million euros of drought aid offered by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha will be added to this amount. “Total 102 million euros that in February and March, in these next few days, will reach the farmers’ accounts, providing liquidity to be able to continue developing these agronomic needs.
Food Chain Law
On the other hand, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development has commented that by 2024 more than 240 ex officio controls to verify compliance with the Food Chain Lawinforma Europa Press.
The Government of Castilla-La Mancha has reviewed 679 files in the last four years and has applied 126 sanctions for non-compliance with the Food Chain Law. “All this without a single complaint having been made in this case to the General Directorate of Agri-Food Production and Cooperatives,” said Julián Martínez Lizán.
Regarding this norm, Lizán states that “sincerely, it has become clear that a review of this norm will be carried out to try to adjust it to the real needs that the sector currently has”, but also has defended that they are not “passive” and has compared it to the application of this rule implemented in 2013 by a Popular Party “that during the entire period in which it was governed made zero inspections and zero sanctions.” “We cannot be defenders of the farmers’ economy when these examples have also been given,” he considered.
Clamor for the CAP
In this press conference to review the agrarian demands, the counselor has recognized that not only in Spain, but in several countries, “there is a clamor for the application of the CAP in the European Union” that must be analyzed.
However, it has made some qualifications to some of the demands, such as criticism of eco-regimes. Lizán has indicated that 80% of the area of the region that he could request them from have been covered in one way or another by the different eco-regimes, so They are going to make “the maximum efforts to be able to modify and adjust them to the real needs of our region and that in this way it will be easier for them to acquire that economic complement that can facilitate their development and implementation”.
“What is not good at all is that we have heard messages that these eco-regimes are useless and that farmers are not asking for them,” he pointed out.
Other measures
On the other hand, the counselor has defended other measures of the regional government, such as its action to eradicate ovine and caprine tuberculosis and support for those affected by epizotic hemorrhagewho will also have aid of two million euros in the coming days.
Among other issues, he also recalled that, in terms of irrigation, they have been 186,000 hectares modernized and transformed, with an investment of more than 260 million euros. Lizán has also announced that they will develop 25,000 more hectares to convert them from dry land to irrigated land, with a total investment of 250 million euros.
In any case, the counselor has stated that cThey include the people who carry out these acts of protest“which does not mean that they are done with the utmost respect for the citizens, who are also the end users of the products we make on our farms.”
“In this sense, I believe that there are also some game rules that they are those that we have to comply with and that in that sense they are determined in terms of the participation established by the European Union, which is the one that really articulates all the measures of the common agricultural policy, for this next period, until 2027, and which logically has channels of dialogue that are through, logically, the Ministry of Agriculture of our country”.
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