coagreclamaThe Agrarian Organization requires the Minister of Agriculture to request today in the Council of Ministers that are held in Brussels that these funds are made available to affected farmers.

The commissioner has announced that he has 125 M € "fringes" for this crisis, of which 82 They are reserved exclusively for apples and pears.

COAG denounces, In addition, that the regulation discriminates to Andalusian farmers by leaving out productions as citrus, zucchini, Eggplant, cantaloupe, Watermelon or potato, and not allow individual producers (that are not in opfh) They can benefit from crisis management.

According to COAG estimates, Andalusia will have direct losses of 1.000 Millions of euros in agricultural sector, mainly in fruits and vegetables.

Coag Andalucía has denounced the lights and shadows of the Crisis Management Aid Regulations published by the European Union for producers affected by the Russian veto and that scandalically marginalizes the Andalusian farmers.

During the press conference, -which has had the participation of the Provincial Secretary of Coag Almería and responsible for COAG fruits and vegetables, Andres Gongora; the Secretary of Organization of Coag Andalusia and member of the Regional Executive, Eduardo López; The Secretary of Organization of Coag Almería, Antonio Moreno; as well as the provincial secretary of COAG Granada and member of the Regional Executive, Miguel Monferrer, They will account for this and other issues during the press conference-, Góngora has revealed that “it is a Rácan regulation of aid that does not adapt to our productive reality. We do not ask for aid, What we want is to be able to manage the market because they have fallen 150 Millions of consumers ".

Regarding the item announced by the Agriculture Commissioner of 125 Millions of euros to manage the market crisis, The Agrarian Organization has shown its discomfort, since this money "has taken it out of fringes. The PAC has some funds from 425 million euros - which is a 1% of the single payment- for market crisis management and are not for the work of mobilizing them, since if they do not spend them next year they distribute them among the perceptors of the single payment. These funds are there for another purpose and we demand that the Minister of Agriculture require in the EU Council of Ministers to mobilize and to, In addition, the limitation of spending beyond the 30 November, Because this calendar does not fit anything to Spanish and Andalusian productions ”.

The Provincial Secretary of Coag Almería goes further and considers that “what is not spent from those PAC funds should not be distributed next year but has to keep, since the veto lasts a year ".

Strategic products

For COAG it is incomprehensible that products such as citrus fruits have been, The eggplant, The zucchini, melon, the watermelon or the potato and that, However, The Minister of Agriculture has announced that she will ask for the inclusion of Caqui and Granada.

“We are not against that affected products are included but there are many that are not representative. García Tejerina is showing an attitude of weakness and is not up to the problem that Spanish and Andalusian producers have, On the opposite that is happening with other countries that have made products without weight in the Russian market as fungi, Kiwis, berries or fruits of the forest do are within a regulation that is made tailored to Central Europe ”, Eduardo López points out.

The Secretary of Organization of Coag Andalucía has urged the President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, to “get wet and intervene in this conflict with the Russian market. We are a real and social economy that generates thousands of direct and indirect jobs in Spain, And the president of the Government has the obligation to intervene and put the same zeal the same as it does when it comes to banks problems, electric or hydrocarbons ".

Individual farmers, out

Another of Andrés Góngora's most vehement criticisms regarding the regulation is that only the most important measures that are integrated into OPFH can be hosted. “We defend and emphasize the need for farmers to be integrated into the OPFH but what is incomprehensible is that before a problem of this magnitude, Europe presents a regulation that excludes all individual farmers who are not in OPFH, And that only in the province of Almería means leaving more than 50% of the producers. A crisis management mechanism cannot exclude farmers yes and others not because the mechanism does not work then. For all this, The Minister has the obligation to fight all these matters tomorrow in the Council of Ministers ", The provincial secretary of Coag Almería concludes.