HE Food Chain Observatory It will meet on Wednesday, March 29 to discuss it. development of food pricesas approved by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas. “The Observatory will hold a regular meeting next week, requested by agricultural organizations, and is part of the Ministry’s regular dialogue with members of the food chain,” Planas said. Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan (CONTAINER) At the Higher Technical School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystems Engineering.
Thus, the primary sector, supermarkets, distribution and industry and the State will once again sit at the same table chaired by the Minister. José Miguel Herrero, Managing Director of the Food Industry, next week and only a month later Extraordinary meeting of the Observatory In a scenario like the current one, in Food prices continue to rise.
Regarding the current price increase scenario, Planas is confident that the measures taken by the Government will bear fruit and the increases will be brought under control. “The situation analysis is in line with the analysis conducted by the Bank of Spain that there was a delay in translation of the decreases in energy, feed and fertilizer prices,” he said. We hope that sooner or later this will happen and prices will indeed come down. “It’s probably not as fast as we’d like, but this drop is undoubtedly possible,” he said. in the rest of Europe.
At next week’s meeting, The government could have taken a measure regarding distribution as it was. France, Planas stressed that “there are few initiatives in Spain” like the French initiative “although not many”. “Although they don’t advertise much in the media and they only do it for their customers, I said it’s positive for the chains to logically do this in Spain and indeed many of them in Spain. But the result in France is exactly the same as in Spain, so it’s out of the question. I am saying that there is no magic measure involved”.
5 million to the beekeeping industry
On the other hand, the Head of Agriculture Provincial also argued. The government will help the beekeeping industrygoing through a complicated situation due to cost increase and for imports honey from countries other than EU. “In this context, we will express 5 million Euros of direct aid to the sector. I also call on the autonomous communities where the sector is important, to complete this and increase its amount.” stated.
“we found this beekeeping industry needs support. Beekeeping is a small industry within the livestock industry, but it deserves all the appreciation and support. “As a large proportion of imports do not comply with community regulations, there is fraud and unfair competition against consumers, we find ourselves facing not only increased costs but also labeling issues.”
The current state of the drought was questioned, Planas is responsible for both its own Department and ecological transition they follow him very closely. “We’re seeing this internally, but we’ll see later if the Drought Chart call is actually appropriate,” he said.