In recent days, at the request of the state security forces, the corps, and city councils, various complaints have been received that farmers are abandoning local jobs and locked up.
In the light of these events, LA UNIÓ asked the government delegation in the Valencian Community to conveniently convey the necessary information on how to do the work so that Valencian farmers and ranchers continue to do their normal work as the main sector and supply essential goods to consumers.
Spain is a leader in the cultivation and export of oranges, and most of the orange groves are located in Valencia.
The organization indicates that important tasks are currently being performed in the Valencian countryside, such as harvesting, pruning, planting, phytosanitary processing and fertilizing, in addition to watering or feeding animals on farms, which are necessary for the production and future supply of food to markets.
Without deliberate or dishonesty and because of the ignorance of the importance of all agricultural activities by state security agencies, the people who perform these tasks were ordered to stop everything so that they would stop doing their work under the threat of possible sanction.
LA UNIÓ believes that this is a clear sign of ignorance of the relevance of these agricultural tasks, and for this reason, the organization asked the government delegation to give clear instructions to agents about what tasks are necessary to maintain agricultural production in Valencia.
The government, as well as the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, state in their statements that "in the case of farmers, ranchers, aquaculture farmers and fishermen, they must be able to continue to carry out the necessary tasks in order to guarantee the maintenance of the activity."
- The Drupacee Committee of the Catalonia Fruit Producers Association, Afrucat, has identified an emergency plan for this sector consisting of a series of short-term and long-term measures. These include a request to the competent ministry to approve a liquidation plan that will affect 10 thousand hectares. plantations distributed throughout Spain, in the areas of Catalonia, Aragon, Murcia and Extremadura.
- The Institute of Subtropical and Mediterranean Horticulture (IHSM) La Mayora has begun trials for seedless mangoes.
- The Spanish province of Huelva has to deal with a large shortage of strawberry pickers.
