Aragon will offer transportation to seasonal workers to prevent them from spending the night away from home | Radio Zaragoza

The Government of Aragon going to facilitate the temporary transport that they work in the fruit picking, to avoid (as far as possible) the need to house them near farms, with a health objective: minimize accommodation, with round trip transportation, so they can stay overnight in their homes.

“Our intention is to make, through emergency contracts, offer to organizations of fruit and vegetable producers, displacement preferably of the cities (Zaragoza, Huesca and Teruel) for relocate workers they have already hired“said the cAgriculture Minister, Joaquín Olona, that in a virtual session in Cortes de Aragón.

There, he explained that in Aragon the concept of proximity is expanded. A concept established in the decree of the Government of Spain, thinking of temporary workers. “It is all Aragon” and thus “any agricultural holding may hire any Aragonese worker regardless of in which municipality the holding is located and in which municipality the worker resides.”

The counselor has commented that he is in permanent contact with the fruit growers, but the PP deputy Ramón Celma I answered that “it is not worth mentioning the problems” and stressed that “I speak to producers also, that they are worried, than they don’t know where to get their hands to pick up” Harvest.

Olona asked Celma to look at the general economic framework: “It is magnifying the problem; all this making clear that of course there is a problem, of course it will be a abnormal campaign, very difficult and with extra costs but is there any sector that does not have them? Hospitality, for example? “He said.

New website for the sale of agricultural products

The counselor has indicated that the Aragonese government will shortly present a space Web for facilitate online sales of the Farm products.

In the debate Ramiro Domínguez, from Ciudadanos, has asked you to do something with the rise in prices of fruits and vegetables, and that does not mean that producers are paid more.

Olona did not respond directly but he did it bluntly: “Demagogically and very little would it be absolutely simplistic, without any rigor, the final price that the consumer pays with the price that the farmer receives “and added that” precisely we aspire to have a value chain, and if there is a value chain, the price has to increase “.

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