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Over two hundred residents of Totana, who traveled in four buses from the municipality to the capital of Spain, participated in Saturday's mass demonstration was called by the three unions UPA, COAG-IR ASAJA and to demand solutions to the "critical situation that is facing the field today. "
Along with the residents of Totana, farmers and representatives of three unions in the town, he moved to Madrid to support the demonstration and farmers of the municipality the council of Agriculture and Water of the City of Totana, Juan Pagan, who recalled that the unemployment and the demonstration demanding solutions to what is considered "the greatest crisis of the Spanish countryside."
In this sense, the mayor explained that we must defend our agriculture in Spain and Europe with nails and teeth and not to promises never kept.
Thus, Pagan said that farmers demand only laws that allow the money they are paying consumers is distributed fairly, and not in favor of large surfaces, which are the ones really making money.
Pagán also recalled that the farming sector also calls for new regulation of trade and payment terms and a financing plan for the sector and refinancing of debt, with new lines of Official Credit Institute (ICO).
However, the mayor said the continued institutional support of the City of Totana, also through the Agricultural and Livestock Municipal Council, all activities or initiatives to improve working conditions and corporate farmers in the municipality.
See report of the demonstration in Madrid:
http://www.murcia.com/region/fotos/2009/manifestacion-agricultores-madrid/
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana. Fotos: murcia.com
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