TIME TO MADRID
always wanted to be a farmer, but never knew how to make a living from it. Finally I dedicate this to put together letters and words but always trying to breathe and feel about the secrets of the earth. In my years in this business I have never met better people than the lives of its efforts in a perfect communion with nature. Here is no room for selfishness, not speculation, it is up to others. Here the land will return what you are willing to give. It is an unwritten agreement, respect and devotion.
Farmers have become twenty-first century Quixote in knight-errant who volunteer their efforts to give us a healthy diet and a myriad of products so that our children grow up healthy, and everything for almost nothing.
In the past 20 years the English have been the most important goals of our history. We the younger generation better prepared and one of the highest rates of university in Europe. Efforts we have achieved convergence with the EU average income and can even boast of being the eighth largest in the world by dint of GDP and why not, we are also world champions kicking a ball ... But in the ditch of oblivion have left our farmers gray hair and not even their children are ready to continue on this path of effort that leads nowhere.
The other day we published as farmers' incomes had fallen a quarter in recent years and that purchasing power was up to 17% lower than in 1990. The cold statistics also reflect the diaspora of 140,000 farmers who left the field in 20 years of 'progress' to live and bring up their families.
Many think that there is no more than resignation, which will continue to think about planting concrete pillars to prosper or even reduced to the few farmers that are left to blow or promises PAC that with the wind. But they are wrong in the same way that making mistakes are in the last twenty years.
agriculture is based on history of great nations and which will ensure their survival in the future that combines sustainability.
Agriculture is a source of employment generation, recovery of abandoned rural habitats, new medicinal and ecological source of export earnings and a crucial factor in improving the environment and the welfare state.
need to rediscover the enormous potential of agriculture to a growth of over 40% of the demand for products in the world in the next years. We urgently need to support a sector that is hamstrung by the supermarkets and their pricing. We need to develop policies from Brussels agricultural rural people, not people who try to justify how much you shine your master and title hung on a wall.
is necessary in governments and European regions to support farmers, the efforts of people who treasure the knowledge and know-how to not break the pact signed with nature for centuries, from generation to generation.
I will not go through the branches, nor by the poetry of letters and words together. Rural people requires compliance with the word. To guarantee a minimum income to monitor prices and quality products in the markets, which dignify pensions, now misery. They call with actual payments to encourage young entrepreneurs and graying. Quietly asked the deserved recognition of his work, and especially rural women, to which the welfare state continues to give them back. Farmers call
water transfers for irrigation, not for speculation, and supporting the modernization of plant and machinery. Who require security and steal to pay because they're sick of them coming into their homes, their engine stalls and instead work without doing anything.
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