After the announcement made yesterday by Vice President Juan García-Gallardo and the Minister of Industry, Mariano Veganzones, of their intention to cut 20 million euros from the agents of social dialogue, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development of the Junta de Castilla and León, Gerardo Dueñas, has also recognized this Tuesday his intention to make "some cut" at the level of direct aid to professional agricultural organizations. This year, yes, the distribution will continue "normally", because, as he recalled, "they have already requested the aid and have an advance granted", but for future exercises "we have to see what the council prioritizes" to dedicate some of those funds to "other issues in the rural world".
Owner has made these considerations before participating today in a forum on agriculture at the Salamanca Casino, where she has expressed in general terms what the Vox roadmap will be at the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development with the ultimate goal of "changing some things that need changing." In this sense, the counselor has mentioned "administrative simplification, modernization and support for irrigation and the incorporation of young people into the countryside", insisting that he will impose "a series of important measures" in these areas.
Some measures that Dueñas, however, hopes to put into practice with the support of the Popular Party: «We have a government agreement, which was signed on March 10, and that is why we have included some of the measures that the PP already had in place previously », has nuanced in his subsequent response to the media in Salamanca.
During his brief speech before the start of the act in Salamanca, Dueñas has refused to single out one as his "star measure", but he has advanced that it is in his party's wish to "develop a national hydrological plan" and, within "the Spain Agenda”, to have “increasing sufficiency at the level of self-production” so as to “not depend so much on international markets”.
According to the minister, this requires a "greater development" of agriculture, livestock and agribusiness in Castilla y León. "Perhaps, above all that, greater self-sufficiency, greater appreciation of the rural environment as a whole, depending less on third countries and developing all those job creation policies linked to rural development, irrigation or land concentration," he added. in statements collected by Ical.
