The National Confederation of Farmers (CNA) will promote regional protest initiatives, including slow marches and demonstrations, to improve incomes in the sector, while several roadblocks occur in several European countries.
In a note published Tuesday on its website, CNA said it was creating a “book of complaints with measures” that could be implemented by a future government.
Among the sector’s complaints are “improved farmer incomes, fair prices for produce with a ban on paying below cost of production, and flow of produce with incentives for short production cycles.”
Farmers also demand regulation of the market (including production factors) through measures that protect farmers and consumers, as well as an end to “free trade agreements” and unfair competition from international agribusiness with products from third countries of the European Union, which they alone are not obliged to comply with. the same social and environmental rules.
“Implementation of the Family Farming Law, amendments to PEPAC (program for the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy in Portugal), greater fairness in the distribution of aid, determination of maximum limits per farm, reversal of cuts in aid to small and medium-sized enterprises. large farmers and providing assistance only to those who produce” are other demands.
In the note, CNA also emphasizes that the sector wants to “redefine environmental measures, evaluate the fundamental role of family farming and add value to production practiced on wasteland, with an urgent review of the reduction rate of these areas.”
“Immediately, the Ministry of Agriculture must ensure that farmers in circumstances identical to those of the previous year, and in the form of assistance up to a maximum of 25 thousand euros, will not suffer from the government’s options, even if this requires the use of emergency measures. national character,” says the CNA note.
The Confederation also takes note of more than a week of protests by farmers in France demanding higher wages, fewer restrictions and lower costs, as well as in Belgium, which have led to road blockades.
For their part, Spain’s three main agricultural organizations announced their support for the European farmers’ protest movement on Tuesday, holding a series of mobilizations across the country over the next few weeks.
The CNA statement highlights that farmer protests across Europe have different contexts and realities, but they all have one thing in common: farmer income, that is, the money that goes to farmers at the end of the campaign.
CNA also adds that the farmers’ complaints and demands will be addressed this Wednesday in Brussels with REPER, the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union, and on Thursday at the round table “PAC in Portuguese”, organized by the Portuguese Language Confederation. members of the European Parliament.
A summit of European Union (EU) leaders will take place in Brussels on Thursday.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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