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Asaja-Ávila reclama una legislación específica para la ganadería trashumanteAsaja-Ávila demands a specific legislation for the livestock trashumante
19 July 2012
The president of the Young Agricultural Association Agriculturalists (Asaja) of Ávila, Joaquín Antonio Pino, exposed, yesterday day 18 July during a meeting in Madrid, the needs of the livestock extensiva of the province in the meeting of the group of work of the National Rural Network ‘Trashumancia and livestock extensiva', of the General Steering of Rural Development of the Ministry of Agriculture.
During the meeting, the assistants analysed the strategy that has to follow to preserve the livestock extensiva, that suffers, to the equal that the rest of sectors, the problem of prices of the chain of value, in his case aggravated besides by the drought.
Pino during his intervention. Photo: Asaja-Ávila.
The president of Asaja-Ávila reiterated the need to eradicate with specific measures of support to the sector the persistent crisis that from does years suffers the sector and that is abocando to numerous exploitations to his disappearance.
Besides, since the livestock is permanently exposed to the transmission of illnesses of the wild fauna, demanded a greater control because roebucks or jabalíes are transmissive of the same illnesses object of eradication in the campaigns of saneamiento, like the brucelosis and the tuberculosis.
Likewise, Pino manifested the need to improve the applicable legislation to graziers trashumantes that facilitate the transfer of the livestock between Communities and the administrative simplification, as well as that these graziers have roads pecuarias in good condition, infrastructures that in the actuality are not in the best conditions for transitar with the livestock.
Besides, demanded to the Ministry that it improve the coordination with the European Union and the Autonomous Communities to facilitate the movement of the livestock.
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