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It exposed him at the opening of the World Social Agriculture Conference.
The former President of Uruguay José Mujica defended in the Universal Exposition in Milan, the need to reduce commercial intermediaries and sell directly to the consumer to promote a more social farming.
"Small producers manage to survive and even prosper" (…) because they save links in the chain and create ways to sell directly to the consumer", Mujica said in his keynote speech at the world day of Social Agriculture.
He explained that the large economic groups and the distribution chains "increasingly carry larger agriculture income weight, income that is not necessarily in proportion to the work of farmers".
Are those who work the land "which receive less" and, for this reason, He stressed at the Expo devoted to agriculture, How to reduce middlemen and go directly to who consumes, which would make sustainable work in the field.
In addition, supported measures such as promote the presence of the State, offering more appropriations and promote better organization to benefit small producers, that States and private companies should commit themselves.
"I'm still a farmer to some extent and I can tell you that many years ago, before becoming a legislator, I would have opted to have a truck and go directly to the people, because it would have come to the conclusion that employers take much", added.
"To achieve sustainable agriculture said that"You must ask the universities to make efforts"and support small-scale agriculture, because "not everything in this world has to be huge.".
In this sense, He defended that "Earth has still artisanal connotations" and, Although the productivity can be achieved "Addend and Addend capital, There comes a time where you inevitably have to add humanity. If you're human, You can not replace the single man with capital".
Also he considered necessary to implement the appropriate technology in the field and solve the problems of communication and transport in rural areas, While He recalled that the other great challenge is to incorporate women, because "there can be no agriculture if there are women".
"Who will take care of the soil of Italy? Who is going to deal with the sustainability?”, asked Mujica, convinced that "love the Earth", attached to the intelligence and commitment "you can get to make fertile lands".
He said that, Although "the catastrophic analysis is part of reason", the deterioration of the earth can be reversed If you are working "in the formation and in the defense of the Earth".
"It makes 50 years, the River Thames was a sewer. Now it has fish. I would not eat them, but inside 20 o 30 years, If the following measures, You can probably eat that fish", concluded.