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Espinosa reiterates support to maintain the income of farmers and ranchers
18/02/2010
February 18, 2010
The Minister of environment and Rural Environment and marine interveno yesterday in Congress where highlighted the work of the Government in the implementation of measures of sectoral and horizontal nature, aimed at maintaining the income of farmers and the financial and investment capacity of their farms.
In this regard Elena Espinosa recalled that they are holding, within the framework of a new phase of dialogue with the professional agricultural organizations and agri-food cooperatives, meetings through the six desks recently created on financing, taxation, biofuels, food and Agriculture and competition, future of the CAP and cooperative concentration policy.
After point out that while the income of Spanish farmers had a drop in 2009 - 1.6, this decline is far from the average of the countries of the European Union that was - 12.2 and other countries with a strong agricultural weight as Italy - 25.3, Germany - 21, France - 19.8, or the Netherlands - 15.5, the Minister has highlighted some of the measures that will benefit immediately to the sector in 2010 as the permanent return special tax of hydrocarbons, the reduction of modules; or compensation for the VAT rise in agriculture and animal husbandry.
