Oviedo (EFE).- Hundreds of people have participated this afternoon in Oviedo in a protest called by all the Asturian agricultural organizations to demand measures in the face of the “unsustainable” situation that agriculture and livestock are going through due to the rise in production costs and the constant closure of farms.
The concentration took place in front of the Asturian Government’s Presidency headquarters and brought together more than 500 attendees, as well as some twenty tractors that traveled through some of the main streets in the center of the Asturian capital.
“United in defense of the Asturian countryside”, “Barbón, the wolf is going to eat you”, “The General Meeting legislates against the rural environment” and “Ministry of Transition, ranchers in extinction” have been some of the messages displayed in the banners carried by professionals in the sector in their request for support given the “hostile” scenario facing the field.
“Criminalization” by fires
The organizations URA, COAG, USAGA, UCA and ASAJA have prepared a “minimum” document -signed at the concentration by PP, Foro, Vox, Suma Principado and SOS Occidente and registered at the Executive headquarters- in which they denounce the ” criminalization” of the sector by the administrations in the face of the two waves of forest fires that have burned some 32,000 hectares of land.
The text of the agro-livestock collectives, read in the protest, also calls for the exclusion of the wolf from the List of Wild Species under Special Protection Regime, the control of wild fauna to reduce damage “to a minimum” and a “fair, agile and equitable” of the payment of these when they occur.
They also defend the “automatic” return of the forests to their “legitimate owners”, as they are “those who have managed them throughout history”, and introduce a “radical change” in the management of the forest area, with the realization effective clearing, controlled burning and a special plan to reinforce the presence of small livestock.
Threat of new mobilizations
The Asturian rural environment also calls for compliance with the Food Chain Law, which prevents the sale of production at a loss, and that health and educational services, such as infrastructures in these territories, be reinforced.
In addition to calling for the “unambiguous” defense of native breeds, especially those that are in danger of extinction, the organizations demand the establishment of a monitoring commission, made up of a representative from each union, to assess the degree of compliance with these commitments. that they hope will be assumed by the parliamentary groups.
Tired of “so many lies” and “absolute abandonment” by the administrations, the Asturian countryside has threatened new mobilizations if their requests are not met. EFE