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They will urge the Government of Spain to approve a Law on minimum prices of agricultural products that guarantees that in no case are they lower than the cost of production and will also request the revision of the criteria for the distribution of subsidies and grants from the CAP

The field sector is taking to the streets and is asking society and public administrations to promote measures to support it.

To that call, affirms the IU-V municipal spokesperson in Lorca, Pedro Sosa, we must go from the City Council of our town, given the weight of the primary sector in our municipality, and we must do so by fostering a social debate on a multitude of aspects linked to the field: fair prices and production costs, subsidies and distribution criteria, trade barriers, concentration of distribution chains and abuses, water, climate challenge, protection of the natural environment, of spaces and species, rural depopulation, speculation, livestock and macrocebaderos, infrastructure, illegal irrigation, rainfed protection ... there are many fronts to attend and it is best to do so from rigor, justice, general interest and common sense.

For now, Pedro Sosa has announced that there will be two fundamental issues that will be taken for approval at the Plenary Session of the City Council.

The first of them related to the distribution of subsidies of the Community Agricultural Policy (CAP) happens, in Sosa's opinion, to initially separate and never better, "the grain of the straw", distinguish between farm workers, the true farmers and those who have come to be called "sofa farmers" or "salon farmers", who are nothing more than landowners who are not put into production and who only put their hand to take millions of aid amounts European

Sosa recalled that according to a report by the Union of Professionals and Self-Employed Workers, there are almost three "sofa farmers" for each real farmer, and he has referred to the great agrarian "hunting-subsidies" of Spain that has names, surnames and reasons social well known to all: Casa de Alba, Osborne, Domecq, Marquesado de Larios, Nestlé, Nutrexpa, Gullón, Fuertes, García Carrión, etc.

The proposal of the IU is to require the Government of the Nation to fight for the achievement in the European institutions of a new CAP where the professional farmer is taken into account, with support to those who live and work in the agricultural activity, betting on a model of family farming, and where the current reality is reversed in which thousands of small farmers receive between 500 and 1,000 euros per year while large producers, landowners or ranchers, multimillion-dollar grants are distributed.

The other issue has to do with the approval and implementation of a Law of Minimum Prices at source that guarantees fair incomes to farmers so that they never have to sell below production prices.

Sosa affirms that in the face of those who now claim responsibility for the rise of the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI) of the countryside price crisis, we are going to take to the debate the incidence of multinationals, oligopolies, large distribution chains, the US tariffs of the far-right Trump or Brexit and the cut in the CAP aid that this British right's commitment will imply.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca