COAG calls for stronger measures in Andalusia in response to the horticultural health crisis.

The agricultural organization COAG has demanded that the Agriculture Advisor of the Junta de Andalucía, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, take broader and more forceful measures against the health crisis affecting fruit and vegetable crops, considering the planned budget of three million euros "insufficient." During a meeting held last Friday in Almería with the advisor and the provincial delegate of Agriculture, Antonio Mena Rubio, representatives of COAG Almería and Granada, as well as other agricultural organizations and Coexphal, expressed their concern about the spread of pests and viral diseases that is forcing the uprooting of numerous hectares of crops. The provincial secretary of COAG Almería, Andrés Góngora Belmonte, pointed out in a statement that the planned aid "would amount to around 17,000 euros per hectare," an amount that "falls short of the magnitude of the problem," since "the impact is not limited to peppers or thrips parvispinus." COAG has requested an increase in the ...