The City of Caravaca de la Cruz requested, through a joint motion, taken urgent and extraordinary measures to ensure continuity of farms in the Northwest Region, especially the almond crop, severely damaged by the latest frost.
In the resolution adopted last plenary, ask local groups that provide aid and modify the line combined insurance of nuts (almonds) and fruit trees for farmers in the area to ensure their real expectations of harvest.
Through this motion, the City of Caravaca is concerned about the state of Combined Insurance for fruit.
Currently, the county is penalized Northwest insurance limiting yields insurable production of each farmer.
Moreover, with the latest measures adopted by Agroseguro doubly penalizes farmers based on some historical.
Taking out insurance against the risk of frost has fallen to alarming and disturbing, so it threatens the viability of farms and farmers' incomes, and therefore the jobs associated with farms and agricultural cooperatives.
As for the almond, which is framed in the Combined Insurance Nuts, Agroseguro has made in recent years a series of actions in order to improve and adapt to certain conditions of the area of ​​the region, without the same effects on recruitment.
"In this regard, recruitment rates make it clear that the insurance is light years ahead of the actual production of the area," the text supported by all parties caravaqueños.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz