ALMERÍA.- The senator for the PSOE of Almería, Inés Plaza, has advanced that the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is working on a draft royal decree that will establish the basic standards to achieve sustainable nutrition in agricultural soils, increasing its productivity.
As the Socialist senator has detailed in an intervention in the Upper House, the basis of the royal decree is “to understand soils as living environments” that receive contributions of nutrients from different sources, such as fertilization, irrigation water or remains of previous harvests. For this reason, to achieve sustainable fertilization, “all the activities that provide nutrients, whether intentionally or not, and the possible ways in which they can be lost must be taken into account, seeking to provide only the necessary nutrients at the time and suitable place ”, has indicated.
The royal decree proposes to carry out a global approach, as far as possible, that allows addressing partial considerations of each of the different sources. In this way, it is also part of the European Union’s strategy for the circular economy as well as serving as a tool for the application of the new CAP.
In addition, according to Inés Plaza, the project includes all agricultural activities aimed at directly or indirectly contributing nutrients to the soil or modifying or improving its physical, chemical or biological properties and characteristics.
Following the allegations received during the hearing process, the suggestions that are being made to this initiative from both the regional administration and representatives of the parliament and the livestock sector are being evaluated. With all of them, the necessary change in fertilization in Spain will be combined “with the technical, social and economic viability of the measures that are finally established, with flexibility measures or exceptions being planned,” says Plaza.
In this sense, the senator for the PSOE of Almería has assured that “from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is supporting agriculture and family livestock as one of the main pillars for the ability to establish population in rural areas , thus attacking that endemic evil that is emptied Spain and fixing the population in the countryside ”.
For Inés Plaza “it is also clear the commitment of the Ministry to work in collaboration with representatives of the sectors and the Autonomous Communities in the search for the necessary balance and sustainable growth and modernization of our agricultural and livestock farms, both through the corresponding regulations of management in the different livestock sectors, as in the framework of the future National Strategic Plan of the Community Agrarian Policy ”.
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