• The supply crisis suffocates the Spanish countryside "If the primary sector falls, the country will fall"

The agricultural organizations Asaja, COAG and UPA have announced this Thursday new mobilizations in December in the face of the problems that the countryside is facing, such as the increase

in production costs

and the lack of

agricultural profitability

. Farmers and ranchers have launched a #SOSrural with a series of protests whose dates will be specified soon, although they have advanced that some of them will coincide with the strike of the carriers,

scheduled for December 20-22

.

The protests will be held in different parts of the national territory and a

large demonstration in Madrid

with the aim of denouncing that the survival of the producers and the Spanish rural environment is in danger "for a confluence of reasons," according to a joint statement. of organizations.

Among the causes,

Asaja, COAG and UPA

highlight that production costs have shot up to "never seen before" levels, after electricity has become more expensive by 270% in the last year and the diesel used by tractors, a 73%. In addition, the prices of feed for livestock have risen by 30%;

fertilizers, 48%;

plastics for greenhouses, 46%;

water, 33%;

and seeds, 20%, according to the producers.

In addition, the organizations have denounced that

consumers are paying more expensive food while in the field they still do not cover their costs

, for which they have demanded a "fairer" distribution of the value of food in the food chain.

They have requested an urgent meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, and a "firm" support from the administrations at all levels, with the implementation of a plan that "saves" the primary sector and the articulation of fiscal, economic and political measures that protect food production.

The call comes after farmers and ranchers took to the streets across the country at the beginning of 2020 asking for decent prices, in protests that were paralyzed weeks later by the pandemic.

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