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The environmental requirements of the new CAP can make Andalusian olive growers in Spain lose a quarter of their aid

Olive
Vegetables
Spain
Published Dec 22, 2022

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Two weeks before the entry into force of the new PAC 2023-2027, the changes that this new reform will generate are still a cause of uncertainty among farmers and ranchers. To analyze all the challenges that olive growers will face in this new framework, ASAJA-Sevilla held a specific day this week in Estepa where special emphasis was placed on the implementation of eco-regimes, one of the main novelties of the new CAP that will have a great impact on the cultivation of olive groves, a crop that exceeds 1.6 million hectares in Andalusia, of which 700,000 may lose more than 25% of their current aid due to environmental requirements. The meeting, which took place in the Oleoestepa auditorium and was attended by more than 200 farmers, was inaugurated by the Vice Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Vicente Pérez; the managing director of Oleoestepa, Álvaro Olavarría, and the general secretary of ASAJA-Sevilla, Eduardo Martín. The latter described the reform ...
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