UPA Enciphers in 500 million euros the losses by the drought in the Spanish field

The technical services of the agricultural organisation UPA have elaborated a report detailed with the first national assessment of losses by the drought. As said report, the losses of the agricultural exploitations and graziers in this campaign rondarán the 500 million euros.

According to the report of this organisation, stand out the losses of the crops herbáceos of secano (cereals and legumes) that already reach the 290 millions and the ones of the exploitations of almendros, that surpass the 120 millions. The extra cost for the graziers of ovino and goat milking rooms will approach to the 80 million euros, by the lack of pastures in the mountain.

The general secretary of UPA, Lorenzo Bouquets, has described the situation of “dramatic” in zones like Murcia, the Valencian Community and the east of Andalucia. The report of UPA details also losses of importance in Aragon, Castile and Leon, Castile-La Mancha, Madrid and even in the Balearic Islands.

UPA Has asked to the minister of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina, the set up of a “ambitious package of measures” that go from the advance of the helps of the PAC, the creation of preferential lines of financials, exemptions and fiscal discounts for the affected and the implantation of a plan of start and replantación of the trees that have dried definitively.