Tuesday, August 12, 2014

The Government urges EU action to … – Washington Post

The Government urges EU action to … – Washington Post

MADRID, Aug 12 (EUROPA PRESS) -.

The Government shall take steps to amotigüar blocking effects of Russian food products in the European Union measures, while to ask the European Commission to adopt emergency measures to avoid damaging the markets, including the withdrawal of fruit and vegetables for processing or storage mechanisms enabled for dairy products.

This has been assured Tuesday the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, told Cadena Cope by Europa Press, which has also recommended to the public consumption of fruits and vegetables.

“I will meet with the distribution to help with promotion, it is advisable for citizens consume five fruits and vegetables a day, says the scientific community, would more to the Mediterranean diet that we are losing a bit and how good it is for the health in Spain, “he noted.

After transmitting a message of reassurance to farmers, the agriculture minister has said that from his ministry will” dump “on the adoption of measures are necessary to curb the impact of Russia’s decision, including you promotional campaigns and removal of 10,000 tons of peaches and nectarines for processing into juice and dedication to charities in order to stabilize prices, taking into that the campaign has been very good.

“What we are asking the Commission is monitoring how the European market, which is what we do not want it to deteriorate because it is the main buyer of our products evolves “said Tejerina, for which the European Commission has to react immediately in order that the measures are effective.

According to García Tejerina, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have response mechanisms for these situations and, among other measures, he explained that it can perform the removal in the fruit and vegetables to transform, you can implement green crop for lower production or can be activated storage mechanisms in dairy products.

“We have a very competitive industry with very export oriented, we will continue working to open new markets, the world’s largest Fortunately,” said the minister.

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