Villanueva de la Jara (Cuenca) (EFE) dry farming and has promised to increase aid by 35% to get 2,500 young people to join the countryside.
In a public meeting in Villanueva de la Jara (Cuenca) together with the PSOE candidate for mayor of this town, Johanna León Collado, on May 15, the festival of San Isidro, patron saint of farmers, García-Page focused on the primary and agri-food sector.
As regards the drought, it has been announced that the Governing Council will approve an aid package of 40 million euros for dryland agriculture, to be followed by another package for woody crops.
More aid for more young people to join agriculture
Regarding work in the rural world, he specified that in his eight years in government more than 2,500 young people have joined the countryside and has said that the next legislature will increase aid in this area by 35% to get another 2,500 young people to work in agriculture and livestock.
He has also pointed out that Castilla-La Mancha has been the autonomous community in which agricultural unemployment has fallen the most and has stressed that “none of those on my opponent’s bus” (referring to the images of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Juanma Moreno Bonilla together with that of Paco Núñez in the electoral caravan of the PP of Castilla-La Mancha) has had a greater decrease in unemployment in the countryside.
Aid for depopulation
Another announcement related to depopulation is the approval of a package of aid intended not only for the countryside but for any other business in rural areas, up to 27,000 euros that will be compatible with other types of subsidies.
García-Page has vindicated the policies for the countryside carried out by the former socialist presidents José Bono and José María Barreda, and has criticized that the PP thinks that the people of the countryside are from the right and that if they are not from the PP they have to be from Vox.
Day center in Motilla del Palancar
The regional president has advanced, on the other hand, that the Governing Council will approve this Tuesday an investment of almost 2 million euros to convert an old bar in the town of Motilla del Palancar in Cuenca into a day center for people with severe intellectual disabilities .
In this first act of the fourth day of the electoral campaign, García-Page was together with Vice President José Luis Martínez Guijarro and the secretary of the PSOE in the province of Cuenca, Luis Carlos Sahuquillo.