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

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 ...