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Gestión de retirada y destrucción de cadáveres

Visit of the Minister of Agriculture

29 de April de 2021
Sheep farming, La Rioja, Society

The farmers of La Rioja will be able to contract the management insurance for the removal and destruction of corpses with an average reduction of 23 percent

The measure could benefit more than 3.6 million insured animals and the reduction would be approximately 0.50 euros / kilo to 0.40 euros / kilo. The farmers of La Rioja will be able to contract the insurance of the management of removal and destruction of the dead animals with an average price 23 percent lower in the next contracting period that opens in June. “The objective is to promote greater profitability of the farms, support the farmers and thus respond to a historical demand in the sector,” announced the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Eva Hita, during her visit to the company Ganados Macuto in Bañares , dedicated to sheep. Hita has visited the Ganados Macuto farms, accompanied by Jaime and Andrés Aparicio, third generation at the head of this family business dedicated to the purchase and sale of sheep with more than 50,000 head of cattle handled annually, which works from the principles of sustainability in the management of the facilities, control of the balanced natural diet and the fulfillment of the maximum guarantees of animal welfare. Ganados Macuto is one of the farms that may benefit from the reduction of the contracting price or revision of the removal and destruction insurance policy, a negotiation that has been achieved by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural World, Territory and Population with the management company of the insurance for its application in La Rioja, one of the Autonomous Communities that had the highest premiums. 3.3 million euros to support agricultural insurance Rioja farmers and ranchers can insure their holdings in 2021 through 20 lines for agricultural productions and another 15 for livestock, in addition to the line of withdrawal and destruction of livestock that has been included in the insurance plan since 2013. The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural World, Territory and Population will allocate 3.30 million euros this year to defray the cost of agricultural insurance and that complement the aid granted by the Ministry of Agriculture through the State Insurance Entity (IN THAT). In this way, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, with the aim of promoting the development of agricultural insurance within the National Plans of Agrarian Insurance, grants aid that serves as an incentive to farmers and ranchers in La Rioja for the contracting of policies to guarantee the rents. The Autonomous Community of La Rioja subsidizes the cost of insurance with a percentage that is applied directly to the subsidy that ENESA applies to the contracted policy. In the removal and destruction insurance lines, this percentage is calculated on the net basis of the commercial premium and the subsidy applied by ENESA is a fixed amount per head and species. Hita has highlighted that “currently the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock is subsidizing 56.3 percent of the volume of the premium receipt of the removal and destruction insurance, a subsidy percentage that is regulated annually and that varies depending on the species, type of exploitation and beneficiary ”. The contracting data by species in the 2019 Insurance Plan – the latest for which figures are available – report 3,653,569 animals insured in the removal and destruction lines, an insured capital of 13,888,144 euros and a total amount of receipt premium of 965,082 euros, of which the Ministry of Agriculture subsidizes 543,245 euros. The total amount of the policyholder’s charge was 308,443 euros at the call for the 2019 plan. With the new conditions that will apply from June, this total amount of the policyholder’s charge would be 237,385 euros, that is, 23 percent lower. If you look at euros / kilo, the reduction would be approximately 0.50 euros / kilo to 0.40 euros / kilo. Hita has highlighted that “the Administration has achieved this reduction in the contracting price, at the same time that it has remained within the Spanish Agricultural Insurance System. In this way, the Riojan farmers continue to obtain the ENESA subsidy, in addition to reducing the contribution from the farmer ”. The Minister of Agriculture and Livestock has stressed that “the Government of La Rioja thus reflects its commitment to improve the competitiveness of livestock farms due to their importance as guarantors of food supply and the economic revitalization of rural areas.”   See new
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