UAGA thus joins the European protests and shows the frustration and growing unrest in the primary sector “as a result of the difficult conditions and stifling bureaucracy caused by EU regulations.”
The UAGAthe Alava agricultural union has made an appeal protest on the 7th in Vitoria-Gasteiztwo days before concentration of tractors ofmentioned by EHNE and ENBA from Bizkaianext day 9 in Bilbao.
In a statement, UAGA explained that after listening to its bases, it decided to make a call mobilization schedule whose central event will take place on February 7, with a tractor driven through the streets of Vitoria that the Basque government will achieve.
The tractors will arrive in the capital Alava on Tuesday, February 6 between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., where they will meet at the Jundiz industrial estate. They will spend the night in a parking lot on the outskirts of the capital before leaving in a caravan on Wednesday morning for the Basque government, where the central event of the mobilization will take place, with the reading of a manifesto. They then return to the Jundiz industrial estate to protest in front of the various logistics platforms operating there.
UAGA thus adheres to the European protestswhich shows the frustration and growing dissatisfaction of the primary sector “due to the difficult conditions and stifling bureaucracy caused by EU regulations.”
One of their requirements is a flexibility and simplification of the current CAP (the EU’s agricultural policy), as “excessive bureaucracy creates unaffordable costs for professional farmers and ranchers and does not make it possible to achieve environmental objectives.”
They also ask for it amendment and extension of the Food Chain Act for prohibit unfair practices so that farm prices cover production costs.
Likewise, they argue that the AICA (Food tion and Control Agency) should apply economic sanctions that better match the violation submitted and that the means of control are expanded.
They demand stop the speculation and purchase of land by agents from outside the agricultural sector, funds and investmentsand preventing the installation of renewable energy on agricultural land.
They also ask that the immediate halt to negotiations on a free trade agreementsuch as Mercosur, because it “cannot allow the entry of products from third countries that do not meet the same requirements as European producers.”
In Euskadi they demand from the Basque government and the provincial council regain its own Agriculture and Livestock Departmentynor promote macro projects that run counter to family farming models.
With the mobilizations they want “society to listen to us and become aware that the primary sector is essential. We produce their food, we take care of the countryside, our mountains and our nature reserves. Without the primary sector, our cities die.”
Source: EITB
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