Hundreds of trucks, vans and private vehicles marched this morning from the Quart de Poblet towards the Ministry of Agriculture in Valencia. Demand Generalitat “not let beekeeping die” and help industryr, as reported by EFE. The “camionada”, attended by beekeepers from three provinces, caused a traffic jam around Avenida del Cid and the 9 October Administrative City, where the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture is located.
All professional agricultural organizations and organizations related to the beekeeping sector in the Community of Valencia -La Unió de Llauradors i Ramadersa, AVA-ASAJA, Asaja Alicante, UPA-PV, CCPV-COAG, ApiAds, La Osa, Arva and APAC – participated in it, condemning the crime new protest from the industryovert insensitivity and lack of response“To the state of the Ministry of Agriculture.
“We’re going back over a decade,” lamented Pascual del Valle, head of the beekeeping industry at AVA-ASAJA. consequences of climate change and “varroosis” – disease that attacks bees that kills bees.
Del Valle stated that the average cost of production is 4 euros, and honey is paid 3.20 euros per kilo.Added to this is the fact that beekeepers are not allowed to put hives in orange blossom.
Despite low production in Spain, the low price of honey is attributed to competition from a product specifically imported from China, a “fake honey” labeled “loose”.
The industry warns that beekeeping is “dying” in the Valencian Community and demands “real support” not “charity” from the district administration, accusing it of being the region that offers the least assistance to the industry.
They want agri-environmental aid suitable for biodiversity, direct aid of 25 euros per other hive and express their rejection of the Consell de la “pinyolà” agreement..
They also criticize the exclusion of transhumance beekeeping from professional diesel discounts and that the regional applicability plan for beekeeping has been “forgotten for two years”.
During the protest before the Ministry of Agriculture, a beekeeper from the Castellón municipality of Bejís, affected by the fire that devastated the area in the past, poured honey from his property on his body to show that he would rather lose production than lose production. Actual Price to sell to the public.
The demonstrators also carried banners with the following slogans: We produce oxygen and they let us die.“, “We are the most ill-treated beekeepers in Spain”, “Don’t let the bees die… they kill the environment”.
Trucks and vehicles participating in the protest are circling the administrative complex and are also planning to take the city center to the Valencia Courts to return to the Ministry of Agriculture.