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ASAJA Murcia with COAG and UPA supporting the claims of the Canarian banana, which will now specify the distribution of 20,000 kilos of bananas in Madrid's Puerta del Sol In this sense, the general secretary of ASAJA Murcia, Alfonso Gálvez Caravaca wants to express "solidarity with the farmers canaries that are suffering the consequences of the crisis and the excesses of the EU on agricultural, just as happens to Murcia area."

ASAJA agricultural trade organizations, COAG and UPA, along with the Association of Banana Producers Canario (Asprocan), will today deliver up to 20,000 kilos of bananas to those who come to the Puerta del Sol between 9 and 14 hours.

With this act of protest is to denounce the EU trade policies that have lowered the entrance fees extra-banana in the same manner as the Secretary-General says BDA Murcia, "that is happening with crops logo Region of Murcia, such as citrus, tomatoes and vegetables, which are being seriously affected by the lack of measures within the EU to stem the flow of productions from third countries. "

In December 2009 the EU adopted a progressive reduction of the entrance fee of 176 non-EU banana euros / tonne to 114, a measure Asprocan ASAJA Murcia, COAG and UPA, have been reported as very damaging to the sector Islands.

However, Spain, in its rotating presidency of the EU, Colombia has recently proposed a bilateral agreement which would then be 75 Euros per tonne would have to pay the banana from this country to enter Europe.

Moreover, they also highlighted the lack of government support in the pursuit and implementation of measures to offset the crisis in this sector accounts for approximately 30% of employment in the archipelago (one of the areas with highest unemployment rate in Spain) and that in the first two months of 2010, excluding damage from storms, has lost more than 24 million euros.

These circumstances, which can also be applied to the tomato industry, run in parallel to the situation of Murcia in the same field, as "trade liberalization European countries such as Morocco has made it very battered tomato producers in the region" as the owner of BDA aims Murcia.

Source: ASAJA Murcia