The chairman of the Chamber of Agriculture, Josef Moosbrugger (ÖVP), has woken people up with a suggestion. The 58-year-old from Vorarlberg, who is a dairy farmer himself, would like to collect a “night euro” in the Alpine regions, from which the mountain farmers can profit. In this context, Moosbrugger pointed out the difficult situation for many agricultural companies in the Alpine region. The hotel association strongly rejects this demand.
“Agriculture receives by far the most funding from the EU’s multiannual financial framework (…). “To then want to take a little money from the coffers of another industry is a big problem,” Walter Veit, chairman of the Austrian Hotel Association (ÖHV), criticized in a broadcast on Friday.
The question is “far from reality”
From the perspective of the hoteliers association, the question is “far from reality”. “If the farmers mow the alpine meadows for us, we also want the hay. And then we are happy to sell it back to them”, Veit illustrates.
Moosbrugger told several newspapers on Thursday that agricultural companies should be allowed to share in the profits from tourism. “We have a cultivated country, and not a monotonous landscape as we sometimes know in certain regions of Europe. This cultivated country is precisely the result of family farming,” the chairman of the Chamber of Agriculture said in the “Presse”.
The question arises what would happen to tourism in Austria if this cultural country no longer existed, he argued. In order to keep the farms going, a kind of nightly euro or something like that is needed, Moosbrugger also told the “Oberösterreichische Nachrichten”.
Source: Krone
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