Carlos César emphasizes the contract between the Government and the associative movement for developing the agriculture
Carlos César said today that the relationship between the Regional Government and the agricultural associative movement has been exemplary, being “a great contract for the development of the agriculture” between the associations of producers and their executive.
This contract, he added, has been outstanding by the predominant role that the associations have today in the definition of the regional agricultural policy, in the attendance and endowment of the Regional Government face to the Common Agricultural Policy, still developing the associations very important tasks in the dominion of the animal health, of the animal nutrition, of the dairy contrast and of the services rendered to the farmers.
“This complicity is fundamental for the development of our agriculture. It isn’t possible to make politics separating the associative and representative world of the agriculture from the political world and, in the case, of the Regional Government. And this complicity doesn’t have nothing to due with parties; it has of Azorean deepening, in the way of the defence of our interests and of the conjugation of the several forces for the accomplishment of these interests”, Carlos César emphasized.
Reaffirming the availability that the Government has in putting in the hand of representative organizations of the economical and business world the definition of policies and, even of their execution, he called, however, the attention for the fact of not falling to the Government the regulation of the market, not even the determination of the conditions in which, for example, the milk or the meat are bought and sold.
“But we can compensate the economical agents who in certain circumstance are those that need more. And, in general, in the Azores, the agricultural producers are the ones who need more and not the industrial ones, since these also had a very strong support as part of the current Community Support Framework for huge investments of restructuring and enablement of their industries”, it underlined Carlos César.
By the way he referred that in the new Community Support Framework “there are going to be in excess huge means that are going to be almost integrally directed for the productive activity, for the producers and for the agricultural associations, which will allow a true jump of great dimension in the modernization of the explorations, in their competitiveness and, by that, in the profit of our farmers”.
The president of the Government was speaking in the final audience of greetings that he granted to recently elected leaders of the Associação Agrícola of São Miguel and of the Cooperativa União Agrícola, in a delegation led by Jorge Rita.