CAP in solidarity with cereal producers in Portugal

게시됨 2024년 8월 1일

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Portugal has seen a significant decrease in its cereal cultivation areas over the past 20 years, with a 124 thousand hectare drop in the last 10 years alone. This has led to a low self-supply of cereals, around 18%, making the country reliant on unstable countries for imports. The CAP organization is urging the Government to reverse this trend by ensuring farmer income and promoting cultural diversification. They also recommend measures such as promoting Precision Agriculture, controlling game species that damage crops, increasing rural security, and preserving crop protection substances at the European level.

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원본 콘텐츠

The total area of cereals has decreased, in the last 20 years, by around 350 thousand hectares (-56%), 124 thousand hectares of which in the last 10 years. In the last year alone, the total cereal area was reduced by 11 thousand hectares (-4%); Portugal has historically had a low degree of self-supply in cereals, which is currently around 18%, 4% in the case of soft wheat and 25% in the case of corn grain. In some cases, our country's growing exposure to cereal imports places us dependent on countries with high political and commercial instability and does not contribute to the European Union's desired food sovereignty, a sine qua non condition of its strategic autonomy; In many regions of Portugal there are no alternatives to cereal crops, which is why they appear to be crucial for the necessary cohesion of the territory; Faced with this extremely worrying situation, CAP calls on the Government to: 1. Reverse this trend that we have seen in recent years, guaranteeing the income ...

출처: Confederação dos Agricultores de Portugal