“It appears that the government of Spain After erasing Castile and Leon from the map», the Council’s Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, María González Corral, criticized this Wednesday during the presentation of her budgets in Cortes. … Section for 2026. Accounts that rise to 673 million euros, which represents a growth of almost 12 percent compared to the last approved accounts – those of 2024 and those of 2025 – to which we add approximately 925 of the Common Agricultural Policy, drawing, in his estimation, the “largest” budget for the agricultural sector in the last 15 years.
An exhibition in which Coral criticized the treatment received by the central government on several occasions. From the side of the Ministry, the branch with which she was accused “We turned our backs” on “difficulties” Which crosses the sheep and goat sector, as well as beets, while two mills – the Azucarrera mills in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos) and La Paneza (León), were closed by decision of their owner, the British sugar company AB.
But he not only condemned the actions of the Luis Planas department, which he blamed “Three months after” the fires After the agricultural sector suffered last summer, “he did not receive a single euro from the Spanish government” despite the announcement. He also criticized the brakes placed by the Ministry of Environmental Transformation and Demographic Challenge on what the Council considers to be the case “Priority” such as modernizing irrigation. “Unfortunately” the planned 14,178 hectares “are still just waiting for the environmental impact declaration” that Sarah Agesen’s administration must publish, the consultant criticized. He stressed that this “assumes a Delays in modernization investments» In performances in various provinces and shows, such as Villadangos, in Leon; Pisuerga Canal, Palenzuela and Quintana del Puente, Carrion Saldaña Villamoronta, in Palencia, or Campillo de Buitrago, in Syria.
Specifically, in the details of the calculations considered in modern irrigation «Necessary to strengthen and develop our sector Agricultural and Livestock”, Corral highlighted among his “goals on strengthening rural infrastructure and irrigation”, for which his ministry reserves 115.3 million euros in the 2026 accounts.
It also includes 103.7 million for policies Targeting youth and modernizing farms As a “guarantee for the future” of the sector; Another 168.4 million for agri-food “promotion” – this includes the guaranteed “Tierra de Sabor” brand -; 100.7 for agricultural and livestock production, with “special” attention to the sheep sector and large-scale livestock farming and 27.2 million to modernize the sector.
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