Spain: The PAC Strategic Plan will leave half of the traditional nuts without aid associated

Published 2021년 12월 12일

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The public consultation of the Strategic Plan of the CAP (2023 - 2027) by the MAP has been criticized by the Union of Unions for excluding traditional dry fruit cultivation in areas at risk of desertification due to limitations in slope and rainfall. This criticism argues that the ministry is excluding a large part of the areas that should be aided, particularly in the Valencian Country and Catalonia, and leading to a significant portion of hazelnut area in Catalonia being excluded. The Union of Unions also criticizes the proposed definition of an active farmer by the Ministry as harming professionals and not adapting to the sector's diversity and climate change challenges.

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The version of the Strategic Plan of the CAP (2023 - 2027) exposed to public consultation by the MAP "maintains limitations" in terms of slope and rainfall that exclude from the aid associated to the operations of traditional dry fruit cultivation, in wide areas. areas of the State at risk of desertification, according to the Union of Unions. Made public the version of the Strategic Plan of the CAP by the MAP, Unión de Uniones affirms that the eligibility conditions and the requirements established to access the aid associated with nuts have not changed with respect to the previous texts. «It continues to be maintained for those rainfed almond, hazelnut and carob crops with a slope greater than 10%, or for those that, having a lower slope, are in a region with an average annual rainfall of 10 years less than 300 mm ". These conditions do not take into account the agroclimatic characteristics of traditional cultivation in large areas of the country, especially the Valencian Country ...

Source: Agrodiario Huelva