Professional arable farmers demand the elimination of unfair competition from CAP aid in Spain

Unió de Pagesos demands that the Administration provide aid to the peasantry of arable crops to compensate for the drop in price they are suffering, as a result of the measures articulated by the European Union in the face of the effects of the war in Ukraine, and to help compensate for the increase in production costs that this crisis has also caused. The same data from the European Commission regarding the impact of this war on the raw materials market indicate price drops of more than 50% in wheat, barley, corn and rapeseed. On the contrary, the increase in production costs (seed, machinery, energy, labor, phytosanitary products, fertilizers and other common expenses) has forced the European Union (EU) to articulate specific support measures for the agricultural sector to compensate for it. . The only two measures that herbaceous producers have had have been the aid for fertilizers of 20 /ha for dry land and 52 /ha for irrigated land and 40 /ha for dry land due to the drought, ...