The agricultural organization, La Union Extremadura, has urgently requested de minimis aid so that the producers from Vegas del Guadiana can cope with the catastrophic damage caused by the storms last Wednesday that, according to their calculations, affected 20,000 hectares of tomato, corn, and stone fruit.
As a result of the continuous disasters, this organization asked to have an urgent meeting with the Ministry of Agriculture to study the possibility of granting aid to the affected farms, as an important part of these crops were not insured.
"The insurance policies do not cover all the damage, they have a grace period, or had already paid a previous affectation, so they won't cover this new damage," stated the general secretary of the Union, Florentina Miron.
In this regard, she said that EU member states had the legal capacity to grant aid for a maximum amount of 15,000 euro in three years, which made it possible to grant aid to the producers because of the adverse weather there had been this campaign.
Throughout this campaign there have been torrential rains in May that ruined crops, wind gusts above 80 kilometers per hour that swept the crops on Sunday July 3, a hailstorm last Wednesday, and producers are expecting a new storm on this Thursday.
Source: elperiodicoextremadura.com