Asaja Murcia rejects the agreement with Mercosur for being "catastrophic and very harmful" to farmers

The professional agricultural organization Asaja Murcia has denounced that the EU - Mercosur agreement is, without a doubt, "catastrophic and very harmful" for the farmers in Murcia and throughout Spain. For the President of Asaja Murcia, Juan de Dios Hernández, "this agreement is a great harm and a great evil for the agricultural professionals in the Murcia and Spanish regions, as it does not compete on the same conditions and does not comply with such important chapters as food safety, traceability, quality, respect for the environment, etc." "Without a doubt, the agreement with Mercosur weakens and threatens the competitiveness and profitability of our exports in the European market. Therefore, we cannot allow it to be signed because it is a huge setback for our agri-food dynamism," states the head of Asaja Murcia emphatically. The top official of Asaja Murcia has also pointed out that "from our organization we are totally against this agreement, and we will fight tooth and ...