Spain: Catalan aid for the rabbit will be less than promised, Unió de Pagesos denounces

Yesterday the deadline opened to request help to subsidize the costs that farmers incurred in 2023 to acquire and install mechanisms to protect woody crops against rabbit damage within the framework of the hunting emergency. Unió de Pagesos denounces that the Department of Climate Action of Catalonia has not taken into account the density of the current plantations, which means that the real amount of this aid covers much less than 80% of the costs of the protectors to whom the Government had committed. In this sense, Unió de Pagesos observes that the plantations of the most affected crops have a density between 3,000 and 6,000 trees per hectare and not between 1,000 and 2,000, as the aid considers, a decisive difference if we take into account that a aid cap at 960 euros/hectare. Unió de Pagesos denounces that the delimitation that the Department has made to access the aid does not adjust to reality and excludes from the aid farmers who, instead of declaring the damages, ...