The President of the Union of Farmers and Ranchers of Lower Guadalentín (COAG), Isidoro Cayuela, has sent a letter to the Mayor of Totana, Juan José Canovas, to the Plenary of the Municipal Corporation should urgently address the serious economic and financial situation totaneros hundreds of farmers as a result of exceptional weather situation in the last quarter.
Temperatures that have contributed to a catastrophic situation in the markets, which has caused several million kilos, especially broccoli, lettuce and grapes, have not been collected and are destroyed and carved or dedicated to products of the industry or animal feed.
The Farmers Union requests that the plenary of the Corporation should urgently address this situation of real exception, to be presented at the competent regional authorities and financial institutions, the need for support to affected farmers in the region and especially in the Valle del Guadalentín ;
which is of particular intensity in Totana, to have accumulated horticultural products (lettuce and broccoli), table grape varieties like Dominga, which are particularly concentrated in Totana and Aledo and Alhama
The President of the Lower Guadalentín COAG believes that this serious climatic and market distortion is already having and will have in the coming months, a large economic impact on farms and hundreds of farmers and the level of employment in the local economy and in all economic sectors.
