Spain: UPA Castilla y León calls for "urgent" support measures for farms with the use of boreholes

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Published Apr 21, 2022

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UPA Castilla y León calls on administrations to apply "urgent" support measures to farms using boreholes (especially beets, corn, potatoes, carrots, and other crops) in the face of "very high" irrigation costs that they are going to have to assume in this campaign.

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VALLADOLID, 20 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) - UPA Castilla y León calls on the administrations to apply "urgent" support measures to farms with the use of boreholes (especially beets, corn, potatoes, carrots and other crops) given the "very high" irrigation costs that are to have to take on in this campaign. "Our organization appeals to responsibility so that certain professionals are not discriminated against with respect to other agricultural and livestock sectors in the country as a whole, since key sectors for Castilla y León do not appear in the order as beneficiaries of the direct aid provided by the Government. central to face the economic consequences derived from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia", explains the organization through a statement sent to Europa Press. The "enormous" increase in energy costs and supplies in the sector this campaign, close to one hundred percent, makes action by the administrations "urgent", both the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of ...

Source: europapress