Farmers and breeders of the association Seeds and Belarra which last winter was intense demonstrations In Navarre with their tractors on the roads and towns, they carried out this Saturday, on the occasion of the celebration of the festival of San Fermín de Aldapa, a act of protest in front of the corrals of Santo Domingoin which they claimed a “living” in the rural environment.
The members of the association showed two banners, similar to those of Sanfermines Clubsin one of which a group of farmers running in front of bulls whose names parody those of Navarrese politicians, Spanish and European. Also The agents of the foral police accuse them in the drawing.
On the banner, The gentle ones represent the agrarian unions from Navarre and, above all, a vulture symbolizes the agri-food and energy lobbies.
An actor represented in this place a parody explaining the different elements of the banner and highlighting the difficulties faced by farmers and breeders.
He president of Semilla and Belarra, Alberto Alecha, stated in this act that this situation has been reached because “the evolution of all European, Spanish and Navarrese policies has made it increasingly difficult for us to compete with regulations that seem correct to us, to guarantee animal welfare, the coexistence of agriculture and livestock with the environment, work and social issues, which are not required for products coming from abroad.
To date, he has stressed: “Our stay in the field is becoming less and less profitable. of agriculture and what is so vaunted for keeping rural soils alive is increasingly under threat.
Alecha commented that, since the protests began on February 6, they have obtained “little” of what they are demanding, but they have been able to verify that, despite the differences between professionals from the north and south of Navarre, “We have great things in common that we must fight for.“.
“We have managed to attract almost all the people we see here today. A few months ago I did not know them and now we are organising events like this and working for improve the sectorr,” he assessed.
The next steps, he said, are “to maintain our determination to collaborate with the administrations and with all sectors of the sector to ensure that our activity is profitable, that we can bring a rural environment to lifean environment that we all love and that we can continue to do what we know and what we are passionate about.
