Spain: The Canary Islands banana should not be left out of the Food Chain Law, denounces UdeU

Published 2024년 7월 16일

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Unión de Uniones and PALCA are advocating for equal protection and fair prices for Canarian banana producers in an upcoming review of the Food Chain Law. They criticize ASPROCAN for excluding the Canarian banana from the law's protection, resulting in lower price guarantees for PGI farmers. They argue that ASPROCAN should focus on marketing its members' products under the best conditions instead of trying to pay below production costs. UdeU also questions ASPROCAN's representation of farmers and highlights the challenges of the IGP Plátano de Canarias, including poor management and credibility issues, which affect over seven thousand producers.

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Given the pressures that are being produced by ASPROCAN at different levels to keep the Canary Islands Banana out of the scope of the Food Chain Law, Unión de Uniones and PALCA advocate that in an upcoming review of the same, the producers of this crop have equal level of protection as the rest of farmers and can achieve fair prices. Unión de Uniones, who knows the reality of the Canarian countryside and the farmers who work bananas through its territorial organization, PALCA, has defended during the two review processes of the Food Chain Law, so that it has the tools that ensure farmers and ranchers, as well as Canarian banana producers, that they can defend prices that at least compensate for production costs The organization explains that in the last reform of the Law, forged in 2021, ASPROCAN distinguished itself by pressing to leave the Canarian banana outside the scope of protection of the standard, which concluded in an additional provision that establishes a certain ...

Source: Agrodigital