The government delegate in Extremadura, José Luis Quintana, highlighted today in Villanueva de la Serena the importance of the work carried out by cooperative groups such as ACOPAEX so that the primary sector is prepared to face the challenges and opportunities facing the countryside of Extremadura.
During his speech at the opening of the XVIII technical days of this cooperative group, Quintana has assured that this forum is the best example to understand the technological, scientific and innovative progress that the sector has experienced in Extremadura in recent years. A task, he has defended, which is the result of the joint work between the agro-livestock sector and the Government of Spain.
The delegate of the Government has highlighted the social and economic moment that the region is going through is a consequence “of those who believed in its capacity to improve and who knew how to do it betting on collaboration, innovation and the future”. To this, he wanted to add the commitment shown by the Government of Spain in favor of the primary sector. “In the last decade there has not been a single year in which the sector has not had problems; when it has not been drought, it has been diseases, prices, crises or international instability, but there have always been problems, but we have always found solutions. And this government has always been on the side of farmers and livestock farmers in this country,” he said.
In this regard, Quintana has recalled the commitment of the Ministry of Agriculture with direct aid due to the international instability of the markets, to consolidate the modernization of irrigation, to the commitment to generational relief and agricultural insurance, as well as aspects related to the innovation and digitalization of agro-livestock farms. As an example, he also referred to the need for labor in the field and the need to hire foreign labor at source, where the Government Delegation has worked with the production sector to publicize the mechanisms that allow them to be implemented in compliance with the requirements established in the law and that seeks regulated immigration without degrading at any time the rights of any human being.
The government delegate, who was accompanied by the mayor of Villanovense, Ana Belén Fernández, concluded his speech by recalling that when organizations such as ACOPAEX converge, with governments that are involved in the development of their citizens, it is possible to advance “much and very well” in favor of the productive sectors of our economy.