Azores want 7% of European support given to Portugal for agriculture
ANDIn communications to journalists, after a meeting with the Agricultural President of the Azores, at the seat of the Presidency of the Government, in Ponta Delgada, José Manuel Bolieiro recalled that the European Commission has a crisis reserve for the agricultural sector in the amount of 500 million euros, with Portugal 9.1 million.
“We obviously want the Autonomous Region of the Azores to be included and included in this crisis envelope for Portugal a percentage of this crisis reserve for Portugal since […] Preferential of the order of %, it is the minimum that would establish that it would be framed”,
José Manuel Bolieiro also added options that, within the scope of the “Government of the Republic”, the Azores will maintain the “claim” of a reinforcement of the Specifications Program to deal with Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI), of the Commission, for how ” measures of local animal and plant production”.
On March 23, it launched a European support package of 500 euros for agricultural producers, the most supportive Commission for the war in Ukraine, admitting the promotion still due to the war in Ukraine.
“To fulfill its role as a global supplier that continues to be fully committed to the environmental transition, the European Union’s agricultural food sector needs our full support and to that end, the Commission is taking measures such as a 500 Million support package of euros, including the use of the press, for the press and the organizers of the crisis for the serious consequences of Ukraine”, announced the communitarian in information of Ukraine.
The Government of the Republic will mobilize nine million euros from the crisis reserve made available by the European Commission and 18 million from the State Budget to respond to the impacts of rising prices in the agricultural sector, as announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Maria do Céu Antunes, in Monday.
According to the Government’s presentation, it is planned that from the funds of the crisis reserve, 9.1 million euros will be used for pig and poultry costs and eggs and 18.2 million more to mitigate the increases in animal feed. and fertilizers.
Already today, it was the Government of the Azores that consecutively provided the agriculture sector with three million euros, to mitigate the increase in production costs and promote “animal food autonomy”.
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