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OF THE 210 MEUROS APPROVED BY THE EU TO ALLEVIATE LOSSES, SPAIN WILL RECEIVE 37 MEUROS IN FRONT OF THE 126 WHAT WILL THE NETHERLANDS BE COMPENSATED WITH?.
Nobody understands it. There was talk of dark interests, black hand and even ventured a “plot to reduce Spanish exports”. Be that as it may, What is proving incomprehensible for Spanish producers is the distribution “unjustified”, in your view, of the funds approved by the EU to mitigate the losses caused by the crisis.
Some autonomous communities have embarked on a race against time to collect data on the losses caused in the Spanish orchard by the E.coli crisis in Germany, to be able to defend next Tuesday at the Council of Agriculture Ministers of the European Union. And that was after the Secretary of State for Rural Environment and Water of the Ministry of the Environment and Rural Environment, Josep Puxeu, will complain, more or less publicly, of the little collaboration of the autonomous communities.
Following the above, It has become clear that neither the Ministries of Agriculture nor the Ministry itself know what quantity of cucumbers, tomatoes, Peppers, lettuce and zucchini are produced in Spain or in its regional areas. At this time, only the figures for productions covered by the Common Agricultural Policy are up to date. (PAC), i.e., those agricultural and livestock productions that receive European aid.
While this is happening in the peninsular territory, In the Canary Islands, the duties have been carried out from the first moment the data in this regard was requested.. The only company in the Canary Islands that presented the losses caused by the crisis was the COAGRISÁN Agricultural Cooperative, who estimated them far above the 600.000 EUR.
COAGRISÁN was the only Canarian tomato export company that planned to continue exporting until the end of this month. This would have allowed it to break the record of four million packages, before June fifteenth. However, The accusation of guilt against his salad companion caused the markets to close their doors. COAGRISÁN only continued exporting to the United Kingdom until last week.
From the Cooperative they regret not only the economic loss, but having to destroy hundreds of thousands of kilos of an excellent quality tomato, fruit of the good temperatures and the excellence of the crops in the final stretch of the harvest.
If this crisis has demonstrated anything, it is that Spanish crops maintain a system of control and food safety and traceability., which is an example for other countries to imitate. And so, generally, borne by the sector.
According to data from the agricultural sector, of the 210 million euros already approved by the EU, a little more than 37 meuros, while Dutch producers will receive 126 meuros. Even the Germans will also get a big pinch: 16 million euros.
While the European Commission is committed to ensuring that those affected by the crisis receive the aid that corresponds to them - the next 16 October at the latest, In Andalusia they continue to collect loss data with the sector. According to data from the Department of Agriculture of the Junta, The amount of product destroyed as a result of the health alert adds up to a total of 18.115 tons of fruit and vegetable products since the outbreak was announced until 10 June.
From the data available to the MARM, The fruit and vegetable product that has most suffered the consequences of the false alert has been the tomato., from which a global quantity of 10.944 tons in Almería, in front of “alleged responsible” of the crisis: the spanish cucumber.
The count has also been moved to green crops, i.e., to products that have been forced not to be collected due to their low or no profitability due to the absence of a market. This is a total of 1.449 hectares of crops, where the tomato is once again the most affected. Apparently these data have already been sent to Brussels.