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The City of Murcia has shown its support for the agri-food sector with the approval in today's plenary of a joint urgency motion by the Popular Party, Psoe, Podemos and Citizens, in which the implementation of policies to help farmers and ranchers thus contributing to the maintenance of the rural and natural environment.
It is the main productive sector of the Region of Murcia, since it represents 20% of the regional GDP.
It is a strategic sector, generator of wealth and employment, international reference in the field of fruit and vegetable exports.
In this way, the Municipal Corporation of the City of Murcia shows its support to farmers and ranchers, as well as their demands and demands and urges the competent administrations to take, urgently, the relevant measures to give a solution to their claims.
“Our farmers and ranchers are enduring a complex situation that subjects them to an uncertain and unstable future.
They are bearing extremely low prices of products at origin and significant export difficulties due to the rise in US tariffs and the difficulties of Brexit or the Russian Veto, â€is extracted from the approved letter.
Likewise, as the motion describes, "to this context of uncertainty is added the recent concern about the pressing water deficit, which is leading to various demonstrations and strikes by farmers trying to find a solution by the political powers."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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