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Responsible for Agriculture and Water of the Socialist Group, Manuel Soler said that the budgets of the Ministry led by Antonio Cerdá leave a year to agriculture, livestock and fishing without support from the regional government.
Soler said that this Ministry has suffered, year after year, major cuts from regional funds, keeping its reduced to a mere administrative and inspection powers.
The Socialist deputy noted that during this term, equity have dropped around 100 million euros, almost one third of the total budget of the Ministry.
Not to mention the budget of the General Directorate of Environment, who just joined this Ministry as well as increasing the amount of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which has been around 18 million euros starting.
Soler stressed that "we should also deduct the backpack that the regional government charged to farmers, ranchers and fishermen for the desalination plant tailings, an investment designed for urban development and that is assuming the food industry every year around 14- 15 million euros of losses. "
The Socialist deputy reported that the parliamentary group, "continuing his usual arrogance has passed the roll" all the amendments tabled by the PSOE and has not approved any "The amendments propose a total of 16 actions necessary for the support. To agricultural production sectors. These range from the expansion of the Plan start and replanting of trees that have been lost by drought, increased support to animal health, the hiring of agricultural insurance, segureño support to the sheep sector and to purchase food for livestock affected by drought, in addition to various actions to the fishing sector.
Other amendments are aimed at grooming and conditioning of rural roads in different municipalities in the region and, finally, to comply with the resolution adopted at the proposal of the Socialist Group in the past monographic debate on Lorca, has also requested financial support for families are affected by the floods Guadalentin.
Manuel Soler recalled that these families lost more than 70 percent of the value of their farms and infrastructure for lack of insurance policy at the time of the incident, which received nothing from any of the administrations.
"From the Socialist Party propose to finance, a reduction of the losses of the desalination plant tailings, quantified in at least 5 million euros".
Socialist MP added that the drought that crosses the region improves the management, reaching agreements with various irrigation communities and municipalities, to put the plant at full capacity and increase their income.
Moreover, the Socialist Group proposes a series of measures to improve regional income, which generally involves optimizing revenue through taxation, rationalizing expenditure and an approach to restructuring of the public sector.
Specifically, for the Ministry of Agriculture proposes to delete the Euro-Mediterranean Water Institute and the Directorate General of the Common Agricultural Policy, "because when you get income from the PAC directly to beneficiaries has remained almost without powers" concluded .
Source: PSOE Lorca
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