The Association ASAJA Mujeres in collaboration with ASAJA Cantabria has vindicated the role of women in the fight against depopulation in rural areas, in the surroundings of III National Congress of Rural Womenwhich was held this Wednesday at the lCantabrian town of Hoznayo with the motto ‘Sowing dreams, reaping successes’. In said Congress, the president of ASAJA Mujeres, Blanca Corroto, assured that The rural world has a future if the correct measures are applied and access to public services is guaranteed under conditions of equity..
In fact, Some of the challenges that have been listed at the Congress, which has brought together a hundred women from different parts of Spain, are the creation of companies hand in hand with women and the challenges that they face. This day, where those affected by DANA in Valencia have been remembered, a great defense of the environment has been made. In fact, the president of ASAJA, Pedro Barato, has questioned “if we are prepared to act in the face of natural disasters”. At this point, he has criticized that Currently, some environmental measures are advocated that “leave the wisdom of our ancestors aside, forgetting that farmers and ranchers are the main caretakers of the natural environment because it is our means of life.”.
Participating in the Congress were, among others, the president of ASAJA Mujeres, Blanca Corroto; the president of ASAJA, Pedro Barato; the president of ASAJA Cantabria, Manuel Herrero; the president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga; and the Minister of Rural Development, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, María Jesús Susinos.
THE FUTURE OF THE RURAL WORLD PASSES THROUGH THE FEMINIZATION OF WORK
On the other hand, Corroto has defended the implementation of positive discrimination measures, such as the differentiated tax reform that the regional Executive has designed for municipalities at risk of depopulation, and “paying special attention to the role of women in the rural world.”. “There is no growing Cantabrian economy with opportunities outside of women,” he insisted, while pointing out that “this role of women and girls is much more important in rural areas”.
In fact, he stated that Nearly 40% of the people who receive aid from the Community Agrarian Policy in Cantabria are women. At this point, he recalled that The higher rate of masculinization of towns is one of the causes of their depopulation. “Retaining female talent encourages employment, generates wealth and stabilizes the population,” he assured. Likewise, it has valued the resources offered by natural environments along with knowledge and popular wisdom when it comes to entrepreneurship in rural areas, knowledge linked to the experience of several generations who have lived in contact with nature and women’s work as guardians of traditions.
GOALS
The association has two main objectives: support women in rural areas by providing them with the information and training they need, and encourage them to assume “more responsibilities” and become “more present” in leadership and management positions of business associations and cooperatives.
To this end, they have defended a tax reform that includes total exemption in the wastewater fee, reduced rates on the Property Transfer Tax and Documented Legal Acts for the purchase of a primary residence, and new deductions in personal income tax for young people and families for renting a home, daycare expenseschildren under 25 years of age who study outside the municipality or due to a change of residence. They have also highlighted the “important” progress that the Shared Ownership Law has meant for the recognition of the work and rights of women who work on agricultural farms. However, he has regretted that they are still a “minority” in Spain, where there are 1,353 farms of this type, of which only four are in Cantabria, being Castilla y León, with 648, and Castilla-La Mancha, with 258, the communities in which it has been better received.
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