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The councilor of the Left United Greens in Lorca, Gloria Martín, today asked the Mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil Jódar, to take advantage of his last weeks as a senator to request a new regulation of agricultural insurance so that the farmers of Lorca are not " In the most absolute defenselessness "before the climatic disasters that, like last Sunday, devastated the crops of the Highlands of Lorca, mainly in Avilés and Coy.
Martín, who traveled to this area yesterday to check the catastrophic consequences of the last hail storm in the almond, vine, fruit and aromatic crops, warned that many farmers can not cope with agricultural insurance for " Brutal cuts "practiced by the Government of Rajoy and the suppression of autonomous aid to favor the hiring of policies.
The mayor of IU-Verdes recalled that, as already announced the agrarian organizations, "to a higher premium, lower insurance contracts and, in the event of a natural disaster, ruin a part of the primary sector."
In that sense, Martín lamented that small farmers carry the burden of cuts like the big producers.
"They can not assume the cost of the policy, which also does not compensate for all the damages they suffer," he explained, so that "little by little they are being expelled from the system for the benefit of large landowners."
This situation is especially aggravated in the case of aromatic producers, a sector that are betting farmers in the Lorca Highlands, mainly young, who are "threatened by ruin" after the hailstorm.
"A kilo of aromatic is sold in the market at approximately one euro, however, the farmer barely receives 25 cents in case of loss of its harvest, so ensure they do not compensate and are out of the weather," he said.
According to Martín, the action of the regional government, mainly of the Ministry of Agriculture of Francisco Jódar, "can not be limited to only specific emergency aid or to ask insurers to speed up compensation mechanisms."
"We have to go to the root of the problem and demand with courage a reform of the agricultural insurance sector that is fair," he demanded.
Unanswered Requests
The mayor took the opportunity to remind the Mayor that he has not yet received a response to the request made last January to him, as a parliamentarian, to promote the amendment of the Royal Decree that delimits the zone of economic promotion of The Autonomous Community that, at the present time, marginalizes of specific way to the high districts lorquinas.
The mayor of IU-Verdes also asked Gil Jódar to promote "a policy of protest" in relation to autonomous, state and European funds in which the high districts, which he described as "insufficient" compared to those receiving municipalities such as Caravaca , Bullas or Cehegín.
Finally, Martín lamented the "paralysis" that undergoes the implementation of the Economic Reactivation Plan for this area, an initiative of IU-Greens approved in the Municipal Plenary last October and that "must be addressed with urgency."
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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