Spain: APAG Extremadura demands that tomatoes should not be paid below cost

Published 2022년 1월 28일

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The agricultural organization, APAG Extremadura Asaja, is expressing concern over the effectiveness of Spain's Law of the Food Chain in protecting farmers from predatory business practices and loss-making situations. They are calling for compliance with the law and a minimum price for tomatoes equal to production costs. However, they have not received a production cost study from the Ministry of Agriculture and have set a minimum price for the upcoming tomato campaign at 105 €/Mt, subject to change due to factors like increasing input costs and weather conditions. They stress the importance of paying no less than the production cost for agricultural and livestock products to prevent abuse.

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Are the measures of the Law of the Chain effective? Do they protect farmers from loss-making and predatory business practices? From APAG Extremadura Asaja they are reluctant and see "many shadows and few lights" in the face of the new tomato campaign that is approaching. For this reason, they demand that this law be complied with and that a kilo of tomato not be paid below production costs. The president of the agrarian organization, Juan Metidieri, has shown great concern about the "laziness" of the Ministry of Agriculture that has not yet presented a study with the costs of production, something that should have already been done to comply with the Law of the Food Chain and that it is fundamental to be able to have an "official" price base and thus be able to demand it for farmers from Extremadura. Given this lack of response from the Ministry of Agriculture and based on the study carried out by Cooperatives Agro-food of Extremadura, from APAG Extremadura Asaja it is considered ...

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