AVA-Asaja calls for European labeling of rice and automatic clause starting from 200,000 tons

The Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-Asaja), after the most ruinous rice campaign in recent decades, deployed a series of demands to recover the profitability of rice during their visit to Brussels. A delegation led by Cristóbal Aguado brought to Spanish Members of the European Parliament and the Permanent Representation of Spain in the European Union (REPER) measures to be pressured on the community institutions. Among them are the mandatory labeling of the origin of rice as EU/non-EU, the approval of an automatic safeguard clause for rice that would be activated starting from the annual entry of 200,000 tons from EBA (Everything But Arms) treaty countries, mainly Cambodia and Myanmar, and the updating of tariffs due to inflation, after being stagnant for 21 years. The rice sector has long been requesting the mandatory labeling of the origin of rice, as many operators have tried to sell Asian rice as if it were Valencian, using traditional images of Valencia and the Albufera ...