Urgent direct aid from 5,000 euros launched by the Government to those affected in the countryside by the DANA floodsnot reaching the majority of the victims, according to the main Valencian agricultural organization, the Valencian Farmers Association (AVA-ASAJA). The entity ensures that the requirements They leave out more than 80% of farmers and ranchers, because they exclude part-time producers and retireeswhich represent the majority of the Valencian agricultural sector.
It is not the only criticism of the entity that brings together farmers and ranchers for the management of the measures to try to compensate for losses and damages that it figures in more than one billion euros only in the Valencian Community.
The agricultural organization also regrets that the minimum aid that is going to be allocated to those agricultural holdings that, according to the experts’ Agroinsurancesuffer losses greater than 40% compared to the average income of recent years. In these cases they will have a maximum limit of 25,000 euros, adding direct aid of 5,000 euros, an amount that will generally be insufficient to compensate for real damages.
The size question
The Government also includes aid of up to 150,000 euros for companies affected by DANA, But in those with an income volume of less than 2 million euros, the vast majority of agricultural companies, the amount does not exceed 20,000 euros. according to the association’s analysis.
The president of AVA-ASAJA, Cristóbal Aguado, reiterates to the Government that “it does not discriminate against any producer who has suffered the ravages of the storm, leaving him out of direct aid. Workers from other sectors who dedicate part of their time to cultivating fields And above all, retired people who maintain the family farm because they do not have a generational replacement deserve a prize. Furthermore, limiting de minimis complementary aid to a ceiling of 25,000 euros is laughable given the magnitude of investments required by farms that have been dragged down or even disappeared. “It’s a joke.”
AVA-ASAJA insists that the Government does not lose a single euro from Europe to help the victims and prevent catastrophes like this from happening again. The meteorological phenomenon has been devastating in crops such as persimmon, citrus and vegetables in regions such as La Ribera Alta and La Ribera Baja.
As requested by the entity in Brussels before the designated Commissioner for Agriculture, Christophe Hansen, representatives of the European Commission and COPA-COGECA and Spanish MEPs from various political groups, Spain has formally requested the European Union to activate the reserve of crisis of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to address the serious effects of the DANA, as well as the temporary reprogramming of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the use of other specific European packages for the recovery of productive potential affected by disasters .
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