There will be over 65 thousand Calabrian farms affected by the cut of the PAC 2028-2034 of 20% with the transition to the single fund between agricultural and cohesion policies. A cut of this dimensions of the PAC resources to which the inflation effect is associated, is an announced disaster! These are the effects of the EU Commission’s budget plan. The choice of President Von der Leyen will generate a dry loss of support for all agricultural enterprises, including investments, through common agricultural policy (PAC). “Coldiretti Calabria – reiterates the regional president Franco Aceto who is participating with a delegation in the National Assembly of the Organization In Rome, the mobilization of which the first and concrete signs have already been had in Brussels and Rome and Rome. The proposal to merge the resources intended for rural development in a single fund, together with the drastic total reduction of the agricultural budget, directly affects all the agricultural territories and above all the most fragile and marginal areas, such as the Calabrian ones, where agriculture has already undergone a heavy reduction “.
From the data processed by Coldiretti Calabria, more than 40 million per year have already been lost in the last 10 years, and now the account is destined to be even more salty. To be affected by these cuts would be sectors such as olive growing, citrus growing, zootechnics, cereal growing, horticulture and viticulture, strategic sectors of the region and symbol of a rural identity imbued in the territory and its communities. “The measure – adds Aceto – will also have disastrous economic and social effects on the production of food, food safety and the push towards innovation and sustainability that in recent years has made Calabrian agriculture, with its quality productions, growing. The design of the Teutonic president of the EU Commission to reduce and dilute the resources of agriculture in a single container where it will be easier to intensify further reductions, make you feel Inevitably, its effects on companies that from the PAC receive necessary and vital support also to guarantee rural development, environmental protection, clean energy production and garrison of internal areas. citizens-consumer. Under the rubble of this implosion – highlight– our children and grandchildren will remain the future generations “If there are those who in a Europe Tecnocrata thinks of marginalizing our agriculture, our mobilization will only continue to stop this drift – warns the president of Coldiretti Calabria – because we cannot accept that resources are subtracted from agriculture and the quality of food to allocate them to the rearmament, also putting the health of citizens at risk.