AVA-ASAJA Calls for Olive Grove Aid to Not Be Limited to Professionals

The Valencian Farmers Association (AVA-ASAJA) has requested that the central Government not limit the planned aid for olive grove and vineyard producers—intended to mitigate the effects of the war in Ukraine and the drought of recent years—exclusively to professional farmers. The agricultural organization advocates for positive discrimination toward professional farmers—those whose agricultural activity represents more than 50% of their total income and who contribute to agricultural Social Security—but at the same time calls on the Government to increase the assigned budget so that these aids also reach retirees and part-time farmers, who in the Valencian Community represent the majority of producers. The olive sector manager, Luis Julián Pérez, has lamented that olive grove producers "had always been left out of aid for Ukraine and the drought, and now, when it is finally going to be approved, it seems the Government only wants to give it to professional farmers, which would ...