Spain: Outrage at the lack of concrete proposals for Valencian wine producers

Published 2024년 3월 4일

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Agricultural organizations and cooperatives in the Valencian Community are expressing their dissatisfaction with the Department of Agriculture's lack of support for wine producers who are facing a crisis due to increased production costs and drought. They are demanding direct aid to mitigate the economic losses from the drought and the Ukraine war, approval of the green harvest, flexibility in diverting surplus PASVE funds, increased insurance policies covering drought risk, resolution of administrative errors impacting organic farming subsidies, and an extension of the B diesel bonus.

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The group of professional agricultural organizations of the Valencian Community (La Unió Llauradora, AVA-ASAJA, ASAJA Alicante, UPA-PV and CCPV-COAG) and the Agro-Alimentaries Cooperatives express their “growing indignation at the lack of concrete proposals from of the Department of Agriculture for wine producers who are mired in a severe crisis and a desperate situation.” Winegrowers have had a significant decrease in income as a result of the increase in production costs and adverse weather, mainly due to drought. The constitution of the Wine Sector Roundtable by the Conselleria on February 29, and convened according to it because “the wine sector is strategic for us and one of the basic pillars of Valencian agriculture”, according to the representative entities “does not serve You are welcome and may remain a dead letter if urgent support measures are not activated for the sector. Except for the aid announced for the distillation of winemaking by-products for the 2023/24 ...

Source: Agroclm