Valladolid (EFE) Takeover bids have been described as insufficient, since they will leave out “more than half of the farmers in the Community”.
This was assured to EFE at the end of the Agrarian Council meeting today by the president of Asaja in the Community, Donaciano Dujo, and the regional coordinator of UCCL in Castilla y León, Jesús Manuel González Palacín, who explained that more than half of the Field professionals in the Community would be left out of these aids by not contracting this type of insurance because it is ineffective.
In addition, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development Gerardo Dueñas, has raised in the meeting an aid valued at one hundred million euros as a bonus of one hundred percent of interest for farmers and ranchers in extensive areas with a credit of up to 60,000 Euro to 5 years.
Likewise, Dueñas has explained, in an audio sent by the Board, that his department has raised a bonus of 95% of veterinary fees for this year and for next year and an increase in support for agricultural insurance evaluated around the 4.5 million euros.
The Opas ask for direct aid
Despite this, the professional organizations have classified these aids as “insufficient” and the way in which they will be applied as “wrong”, since the Takeover Bids have reiterated to the Board the need to grant direct aid to “all professionals who do the PAC”, Dujo indicated.
Specifically, organizations such as Asaja have demanded that the regional government approve a fund with at least 200 million euros in aid, so the measures proposed today fall “very short”, he insisted.
However, both the Ministry and the agrarian organizations have recognized that this is a first approach and new meetings have been called as of next week, although the Takeover Bids have already warned that if many of their demands are not met “they will continue with the calendar of protests” that started last week in Valladolid.EFE