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Carlos Mazón urges the European Union “to cultivate the future of agriculture to ensure territorial balance and economic activity”

 

• Carlos Mazón urges the European Union “to cultivate the future of agriculture to ensure territorial balance and economic activity”
• It requests “turning the challenges of the agricultural sector into solutions” and demands the unity of the Administrations so that agriculture “is viable, sustainable and with a future”
• Reclaims the value of agriculture in the structuring of the territory, the fight against depopulation and desertification, in the sustainability and protection of the landscape and culture of the territory
• It appeals to the Mediterranean diet, declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, to protect Valencian agri-food products.
• José Luis Aguirre demands real and effective measures such as the simplification of regulations, equal conditions, putting an end to unfair competition and recovering community preference
• The president of the Generalitat and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries have participated in the European Parliament in the event 'Cultivating the future: Challenges and Solutions for European Regional Agriculture' 

 
The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has urged the European Union to “cultivate the future of agriculture to ensure territorial balance and economic activity” and has requested to convert the challenges of the agricultural sector into solutions to “guarantee the presence of agriculture in our lives.”

 

This was stated during his speech at the European Parliament at the event 'Cultivating the future: Challenges and Solutions for European Regional Agriculture' organized by the Valencian Community delegation in Brussels with the aim of addressing crucial issues that affect the Valencian agricultural sector. and in which the main representatives of the Valencian agricultural organizations have been present.

 

Carlos Mazón began his speech by highlighting the presence of the Valencian Community in the European Parliament as “a united, coordinated and very well represented land” and has advocated for the continuity of this initiative in the future. 

 

Likewise, he has made reference to the agreed position document presented by the main agricultural organizations of the Valencian Community (AVA-ASAJA, ASAJA Alicante, La Unió Llaudarora i Ramadera, COAG, UPA, and Cooperatives Agroalimentàries) of which he has highlighted its “character strategic, rigor in the diagnosis and its strength in identifying the challenges we face” and in which solutions and proposals for the future are also proposed.

Thus, he has highlighted the support of the Consell for this document and has defined the agri-food industry as “one of the pillars of the Valencian economy, essential for our export fabric”, while highlighting its impact on other economic sectors. 

 

The president has defended that the agricultural sector “goes beyond producing food” and has stated that “it is a complex fabric that unites tradition, economy, identity and innovation that cannot be treated like any other sector.” 

 

In this sense, he stressed that “with detachment from the future of agriculture we will have a strategic catastrophe” because “none of what comes after, design, innovation, packaging, logistics, transportation, makes sense without agriculture.”

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During his speech, Carlos Mazón has appealed to the European Union to “be aware of this strategic change regarding the agricultural model of the future” and has demanded the unity of all Administrations so that this industry “is viable, sustainable and with a future.” ” because it is “an indispensable sector” for the rest of the economic sectors. 

The value of agriculture 

Carlos Mazón has stressed the importance of agriculture in the economic and territorial development and has stressed that it is a sector “that we cannot do without in any way.”

In that sense, it has claimed the value of agriculture in the structuring of the territory, the fight against depopulation, desertification, climate change and the protection of the landscape and culture of the territory.

 

In this way, it has appealed to the Mediterranean diet, declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, to protect Valencian agri-food products and the healthy food model.

Likewise, it has influenced the commitment of the Valencian Community so that “agriculture is part of our way of living and producing, of our way of understanding the use of the territory, leisure and cultural memory” and for this reason it has claimed that “ "That same thing is established in the European Union."

 

Finally, he encouraged the European institutions to know “the maturity of our sectors, how it is present in our territory, how it cares for water responsibly, the design, quality and development of new products.”

 

For his part, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, José Luis Aguirre, has indicated that "we come to Brussels to demand that things change, that the primary sector be respected and that they be listened to, not from the offices, but from the reality that they live every day. Only in this way can we help them." Therefore, he added that "it is necessary that real and effective measures be taken that truly help our farmers and ranchers."

 

Aguirre explained in this forum that “we have a series of proposals, which are those of the Spanish countryside, which include the particularities of our region such as the simplification of regulations, guaranteeing equal conditions, ending unfair competition or recovering the community preference.”