The Spanish Government opens at the end of August the public consultation for the management of beef and dairy cattle

Published 2021년 8월 3일

Tridge summary

Spain's Minister of Agriculture, Ricardo Full[/INST] Planas, has emphasized the need for a new regulation to regulate the beef sector, following previous regulations on pigs and poultry. The aim is to support medium and small farms and establish a profitability mechanism through fair pricing. The minister is concerned about the decline in dairy cattle farms, which he fears could lead to small farms being overshadowed by larger ones. The minister will focus on maintaining a balance between competitiveness and social and territorial importance. The dairy sector, which contributes around 13,000 million euros annually and employs 60,000 people, is currently facing a profitability crisis due to increased production costs.
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After the regulation regarding pigs in 2020 and that of poultry this year, Planas has underlined the importance of that of beef - "to which I committed myself to the sector" - and which aims to "give stability to medium and small farms ”, By having a profitability mechanism via price. In this sense, the minister recalled that there has been "a decrease in the number of dairy cattle farms, which has been accompanied by an increase in production", a correlation that "represents a risk for the family and professional structure of a good part of the milk farms in Spain ”. The management, according to Planas, will be aimed at avoiding "the large farms do not end up drowning those small farms that are so important in the towns" throughout Spain. "We must reconcile the need for competitive farms at the price level in the national market and in the context of the European Union," he added, with what "these farms mean in the social and territorial structure. A reflection that is valid not ...
Source: PEefeagro

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