COAG Describes the helps for paliar the damages by drought of “measures clearly insufficient”

The Coordinator of Organisations of Agriculturalists and Graziers (COAG) considers that the order of financials published the past Saturday in the BOE is not to height of the significant increase of costs and the economic losses that has generated the drought of the months of autumn-winter in the exploitations. Besides, the high temperatures of the month of May have evaporated the effects of the last rains in the crops of secano of the centre and south of the peninsula. “By himself alone, these measures are clearly insufficient to facilitate the urgent injection of liquidity that need the exploitations since they only pose a greater level of indebtedness in base to loans to a high interest”, put of self-evident Miguel White, general secretary of COAG.

To tenor of the text of the order, the agriculturalists and graziers will have to face 1.600 million euros in losses (20%-30% less than production in cereals of secano and between 1.500-2.500 month/ by exploitation by extra cost of feeding with piensos in livestock extensiva), with a budget of 8,74 millions, global economic total of the measures approved by the government, very move# away of the 80 millions of the package of measures approved in the period of drought of the year 2005.

However, COAG values that it have increased of 1 to 2 years the special period of lack for the loans conceded by the Ministry of Agriculture for the modernisation of exploitations (plans of improvement and installation of young agriculturalists), as it had requested this organisation in the allegations to the draft of order. In economic terms, this attainment supposes 1 million of euros more for the agriculturalists and graziers. Besides, COAG has demanded to the Ministry that promote an agreement with the banking entities so that they advance the helps of the PAC to the month of July to an interest of 0% and that set up a line of official loans bonificados to an interest the sufficiently appeal for those the agriculturalists and graziers that do not have loans contracted and that equally have seen affected by the drought and the frosts of the winter.