The Government makes the gathering of the agricultural subsidy extra versatile because of the results of the storm within the countryside | Economy | EUROtoday

The Government will approve subsequent Tuesday within the Council of Ministers the discount of the mandatory labor hours in order that momentary agricultural staff affected by the lack of productive exercise because of the results of the succession of storms can gather each the subsidy and agricultural revenue. Specifically, because the Chain Beingthe variety of precise days required to gather the subsidy will probably be lowered from 35 to 5 peonadas, within the occasion that they’ve been recipients of that profit the earlier yr. And the labor charges will probably be lowered from 53 to fifteen within the occasion that they’d not been recipients of agricultural revenue within the instantly previous yr.

The unions have been demanding any such labor flexibility measures as a result of the paralysis of campaigns, the impossibility of accessing flooded farms and the crops that can’t be harvested are resulting in a direct loss in agricultural employment. “We cannot allow this situation to leave thousands of rural families without protection,” the final secretary of UGT FICA Andalusia, José Manuel Rodríguez Saucedo, had denounced this Thursday. The unions additionally demand the pressing modification of the Social Security laws in order that, throughout this extraordinary interval, it isn’t necessary to finish 30 days within the earlier twelve months to stay registered within the agrarian census, in addition to the remission of the cost of the Special Agrarian Regime quota (stamps or agrarian bulletins) whereas the implications of the floods persist.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, reported this Friday, after assembly in Seville with cooperatives and agricultural organizations, that he has already requested the European Commission to activate the agricultural disaster fund for the areas affected by the successive storms. The software of flexibilities of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can even be studied in order that affected farmers don’t lose their help within the occasion that they can not domesticate or meet all the necessities, attributable to pressure majeure. In his opinion, in Andalusia alone there are greater than 14,000 agricultural hectares which have been left with out manufacturing because of the flooding of land and essentially the most affected crops are purple fruits, citrus fruits, greens, herbaceous crops and olive groves.

Although he has specified that it isn’t but potential to hold out an evaluation of the harm as a result of technicians can’t entry many affected areas, Planas has introduced that the Executive is making ready a plan of response measures to compensate farmers and ranchers for the losses prompted and to rebuild manufacturing infrastructures which have been broken, corresponding to these he visited this Friday in Villaverde del Río (Seville).

Planas has valued the agricultural insurance coverage system, as a result of “it is the best protection tool for farmers and ranchers” in instances of climatic adversities. And he recalled that with a funds of 315 million euros for this yr by way of insurance coverage, the Government has elevated this merchandise since 2018, when it had an preliminary allocation of 211 million euros. In Andalusia alone, farmers and ranchers who took out an agricultural insurance coverage coverage in 2025 obtained state help of greater than 32 million, with the subsidy accounting for round 45% of the online price of agricultural insurance coverage.

The minister, who has introduced that the Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Christophe Hansen, will go to Andalusia subsequent week, has highlighted the significance of collaboration between the Government, the Government of Andalusia and native authorities to beat this case.

To guarantee better agility within the response, Planas has indicated that the Ministry and the Government of Andalusia have agreed to behave in a coordinated method to keep away from overlaps, each in help and in different help measures.

Agricultural organizations have additionally valued the institutional coordination between the central and regional governments. “The most urgent thing is to attend to those who have been left with nothing and then we have to restore the productive potential of Andalusia, which is the pantry of Europe,” mentioned Juan Luis Ávila, common secretary of COAG in Andalusia.

The Junta de Andalucía has requested the Government to induce the European Commission to undertake an distinctive measure, in accordance with article 221 of Regulation (EU) 1308/2013, which permits emergency monetary help to be granted to the Andalusian agricultural sector from the agricultural reserve of the European Union, remembering that this measure was already utilized in March 2025. And on the identical time they demand the applying of further flexibilities within the necessities of the direct help of the Policy Common Agricultural Policy (PAC).

According to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, the Board has requested flexibilities within the rotation of crops with bettering species, direct sowing, spontaneous or sown vegetal covers and inert covers, in addition to within the help related to the sustainable manufacturing of proteins of plant origin, in order that farmers and ranchers can obtain help regardless of the difficulties derived from the rains and floods.