Although the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food,

Luis Planas

, assures that

the food supply is "absolutely guaranteed"

, the Government plans to issue a

resolution

shortly to lift the technical restrictions and thus facilitate

the arrival of cereal as soon as possible, especially corn, from Argentina.

This decision comes after the

Permanent Committee for Plants, Animals, Food and Feed of the EU

authorized last Friday the Member States to "

relax the maximum limits of phytosanitary residues

" that prevented the importance of raw materials such as

sunflower cake or maize

available in the South American country, "within the full guarantee and security of agri-food trade," says the minister.

In this sense, Planas has revealed that he has had a "very positive" and "constructive" conversation with

his Argentine counterpart, Julián Andrés Domínguez

, to "give support" to this series of measures between the two countries and thus unblock, due to the exceptional situation current, the current phytosanitary requirements that

limited the arrival of a greater volume of imports

of this sector to Spain from Argentina.

Ukraine

is the

largest supplier of corn for Spain

, with

30% of imports

, with a total of more than

2.8 million tons per year

, worth

460 million euros

, being the second world destination for exports Ukrainians in this sector.

It is also in

wheat, barley or beans

, which add up to another 383 million, for the manufacture of feed for livestock, in a market that also affects manure and fertilizers.

FALLOW LANDS

In addition, Planas opened the door to

planting crops such as corn and rice on fallow land in the

face of the worrying effects of the

scarcity of cereals due to the war

.

The proposal was presented on Sunday in La Palma by the president of the Junta de Extremadura,

Guillermo Fernández Vara

, at the Conference of Presidents, and the minister values ​​the possibility of temporarily relaxing the conditions of mandatory crop rotations and have the possibility of sowing maize under certain conditions, as well as using fallow land or areas of ecological interest.

In any case, for the minister "it is much more significant and a priority to

import from other markets of origin

than what we can increase quantitatively."

All this will have to be assessed in different meetings in the coming days in

Brussels

for its final approval, the last one by the Council of Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries scheduled for next Monday in Brussels.

Planas, in addition, also expects progress in terms of

imports from the United States.

Regarding

fertilizers

, the minister has indicated that although the EU is dependent on imports in this matter, Spain is the community country with the greatest "autonomy" because half of what it consumes is produced in our own territory.

Thus, Planas has insisted on the need to

advance in agri-food autonomy

to avoid "bottlenecks", especially in the production of vegetable proteins and agricultural inputs.

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