Union of Unions demands to include extraordinary accident rates in agricultural insurance

The agrarian organization Unión de Uniones de Agricultores y Ganaderos has called on the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) for the "urgent need to incorporate" extraordinary losses due to climate change into the future agricultural insurance plan. Unión de Uniones explained in a statement that this is measure 27 of the 43-measure document signed in April 2024 within the framework of a meeting convened by the ministry to address the 2026 Combined Agricultural Insurance Plan. The organization has recalled that in that document, points 27, 28, 29, and 30 "included specific commitments" related to the agricultural insurance system, which "have not been fully realized." Among these, it has cited the "creation of complementary instruments" to address extraordinary losses derived from climate change and to ensure that professional farmers achieve the "maximum subsidies allowed" by European regulations, they pointed out. Therefore, they have requested that these ...