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COAG Moves to the Ministry of Agriculture the demands of the agriculturalists and ecological graziers

09/10/2012

9 October 2012

Andoni García and José Manuel Benítez, responsible maxima of the Area of Ecological Agriculture of COAG, gathered yesterday, day 4 October, with Fernando Burgaz, general director of Alimentary Industry of the Ministry of Agricutura and with Clemente Tapia, general deputy director of Quality Differentiated and Ecological Agriculture of the MAGRAMA, to move to the government the main demands of the agriculturalists and ecological graziers.

The managers of COAG sued the set up of a commission of work that summon of periodic form. The Ministry engaged to gather to the Sectorial Table of Ecological Agriculture in brief to treat of conjoint form and of specific way all the appearances that interest to the sector.

Also incidió in the need of a harmonisation of the normative interpretation of hygiene and hygiene of the foods that allow the transformation artesanal of the ecological products in the exploitations. For this requested the manufacturing of hygienic guides-sanitary ware that facilitate the transformation and the commercialisation of ecological products in the direct selling and in short circuits.

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Likewise, it demanded the maintenance of the local slaughterhouses like tools to develop a model of livestock ecological that answer to the interests of producers, carniceros and local consumers. COAG Considers essential that allow the installation of slaughterhouses in the own exploitation, adapting the sanitary ware hygienic–rule European to the model of small exploitation.

Besides, the representatives of COAG underlined the difficulty to find cereals and piensos ecological allocated to the feeding of the livestock and the high price of the same. The speculation and the pollutions by transgénicos are some of the reasons, in opinion of the agricultural organisation. The certification and the organisms of control of the certifier, went others of the subjects that treated during the meeting.