The agreement with Morocco will cost more than 15,000 jobs in the region of Valencia, according to AVA-Asaja
December 14, 2010
Done calculating fundamentally responds to the impact that it will bring the apertura to two key crops, tomato - of which the region is the fourth nacional productor - and the cítricos - the first-. The figures provided are corresponden with the value measured in empleos that generate two separate crops as well as other 'minor' without considerar the puestos of work created beyond clothing store, for example in the transport of the product. Thus, in the caso of the vegetable, only in our autonomía would be more than a thousand empleos which would destroy in the medium term, when it will hiciera effective access to the EU of 285,000 tons 'free'. In the case of the cítricos, the impact of the new concesiones in naranjas - which is no longer a 'sensitive' crop to remove the contingentes-; mandarinas - para which also removes the maximum tonelajes - and clementines - cuyo contingent eleva to 170,000 tonnes - would be mucho higher, given that it pondría in danger more than 12,000 empleos, 5,500 of them of citricultores and rest procedente of the work of recolección and procesado.
With regard to the abandonment of fields, AVA-Asaja predicts would that only in citrus nuevas chances given the Moroccan country lead in the medium term the disappearance of 16,000 hectares (Ha). Surface which add to the nearly 15,000 Ha. abandoned in the últimos eight years because of the price crisis, which the insurance agreement agravaría to suponer also cut by 30 per cent of the current price of entry.