The situation facing the wine sector is “dramatic”. This is how they explain it in the agrarian organization Asajafrom which they accuse some market price “increasingly dilapidated” which makes the farms wine producers are becoming less and less profitable. Therefore, since Asaja They demand an “urgent” meeting of the wine sector with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planasto study the implementation of measures to deal with this “dramatic” situation.
More precisely, the agrarian organization He recalled that he denounced discouragement which is spreading among wine producers due to the lack of profitability of their farms, unable to cope with increasingly ruinous market prices. After the last vintagethe organization explained that there was a production campaign higher than that of the previous year by 17%and therefore a greater imbalance between supply and demand with some price for the producer below production costsa heavy and paralyzed market for red winesyes, and one declining consumption, both nationally and internationally.
In this context, the wine sector has considered “urgent and priority” that he Department of Agriculture act and adopt a set of measures to remedy this situation. He therefore asks to meet Flat propose a series of measures that limit the productive potential of the sector to adapt it to the market and others aimed at safeguarding the survival of producers.
He therefore calls for, as an essential measure to control production potential, the establishment of financial assistance for business start-ups. vineyardregardless of its subsequent replanting or permanent start as it did France.
Always with the aim of controlling productive potential, he urges Flat defend before the European Commission the need to prohibit new planting authorizations for three years (2025, 2026 and 2027), study the market development and allow EU member countries to rethink their national strategies.
