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Ángel Mecca: "This situation is unsustainable precisely because of the damage it causes farmers, who are already having to face too many problems to have to add a new stumbling block.

The Councilor for Agriculture in the City of Lorca, Ángel Meca, wanted to make clear the support of the Municipal Consistory to the Coato Lorca cooperatives who are being harmed by the problem that arose within the cooperative for the price granted to the harvest of almond.

Ángel Meca was present again in the afternoon yesterday accompanying Lorca farmers in the protest they keep at the gates of the cooperative, and explained that the City is from the first moment with our producers, since the almond sector supposes a strategic niche that includes producers of different districts of our wide municipal term.

These are in many cases families that have invested a large part of their own money to be able to carry out their crops and which have now been found in a surprising way with a purchase price that does not respond to the forecasts of origin or reality of the market.

The truth is that in spite of particularly adverse weather conditions, suffering the driest summer of which records are kept, these Lorca families have been able to maintain their productions and offer a quality product.

It is very meritorious what they have been able to do and very unfair that they are now in this situation.

The Councilor for Agriculture has stated that this conflict must be resolved through dialogue and has demanded the management of the cooperative to stick to reasons for common sense and find a way out of a conflict that can not maintain in time .

The start is the dialogue, so we urge the leaders of Coato to meet with producers Lorca and put an end and solution to this issue.

This situation is unsustainable precisely because of the damage it causes farmers, who are already having to face too many problems to have to add a new stumbling block.

Ángel Mecca has emphasized that in the face of such a conflict there is no room for immobile or obscure positions, they have to offer an explanation to our farmers and report what is happening, because it is cruel to add uncertainty with a silence that benefits no one and harms everybody.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca