Spain: The Commonwealth of Jerte demands decent and adapted insurance for cherry growers in the area

The plenary session of the Commonwealth of Municipalities of the Jerte Valley has approved a motion in which it defends the need for "decent and adapted" insurance for cherry producers in the region and requests financial support to alleviate the damage that the rain has caused. in the current campaign to the cherry growers in the area. The motion, which has been approved unanimously, indicates that the Valle del Jerte region is an eminently agricultural territory where cherry cultivation is the "maximum exponent." Like any agricultural product, harvests are determined to a large extent by the weather conditions of each campaign "which means enormous uncertainty for the farmer. Not in vain, a bad weather year can mean the total loss of the harvest and therefore "So all the work carried out is lost," the motion indicates. In this sense, the Commonwealth has denounced that farmers "do not take out insurance since their system does not at all adjust to the type of dominant farms in ...