Agriculture

The EHNE union has protested to the headquarters of the Basque Government in San Sebastián to denounce the situation of farmers. They warn that their activity has deteriorated due to drought. Izar, too, the pastures are completely dry and, among other things, they have had to buy grass outside. They ask the government for help so that livestock farming has a future.

The Councillor of the Basque Government has explained that the Members of Parliament are determining the amount of aid and the subsectors to which it will be allocated.

The Minister for Food, Rural Development, Agriculture and Fisheries of the Basque Government, Amaia Barredo, participated this afternoon in the Sectoral Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development held in Madrid, where she called for structural measures for the sector to deal with the crisis caused by heat and drought.

Farmers' representatives will meet next week with the French Ministry of Agriculture to convey their demands. The effects of drought and heat are being felt economically, but also physically and mentally.

Agricultural associations and trade unions, among others, want the ACV to be declared a drought zone and special measures to be taken. The meeting will take place at 4 p.m. at the headquarters of the Basque Government in Vitoria-Gasteiz. 

This time, the cause of the march has been the severe drought in rural Álava this summer. Anternational Emergency Shock Measures have been called for to be put in place to compensate for the serious losses suffered in livestock farming. Gen addition, they demand an effective way of managing the lack of food for livestock and a solution to the shortage of fodder.

Dozens of rural professionals have gathered in Vitoria-Gasteiz in response to the call for the association Ataca (Association of Farmers and Farmers of Álava and Treviño) to urge the Basque Government to declare the area of drought in order to receive specific aid to deal with the effects of drought and heat waves.

On the 17th of August the harvest began in the vineyards of Bizkaia. An the year, unlike in previous years, the mildiu fungus has not caused damage to the vines. Gauza thus expect a fruitful harvest in the wineries of the Denomination of Origin Bizkaiko Txakolina, since both the clusters and the grains are large.

The agricultural organization denounces the "inaction" of the Basque Government and its "departure from the sector". For its part, the union ENHE has called for the declaration of a drought situation and "extraordinary aid" to compensate for the damage suffered.

The Minister for Food, Rural Development, Agriculture and Fisheries of the Basque Government, Amaia Barredo, has advanced that the Basque Government will make available to the livestock sector "by early September" the joint purchase routes for certain raw materials due to the shortage of grass caused by the drought. In an interview on Radio Euskadi this Friday, Barredo explained that although the Fodder Table is not yet convened, this does not mean that there will be any delays.

The Basque Government has closed a survey involving 435 livestock farms in the three territories, the data of which will make it possible to size the joint purchase and negotiate the supply of fodder.

For two weeks now, the Fodder Table has met and the institutions have made a number of commitments. Many farmers have started buying grass and straw on their own and have called on the institutions to take immediate action.

The spokesman for the agricultural union, Xabier Iraola, has detailed that there are about 5,000 farms in Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa outside the public water supply network, which are increasingly suffering from water shortages due to summer droughts.

Representatives of the ENBA trade union and the Alavese farmers' association UAGA have met with the Basque Government in Lakua to assess the damage caused by the heat and lack of rain in the primary sector.

In two words, a summary of what will be news of the Present today.

High temperatures are having serious consequences for farmers, who have lost whole crops of lettuce on some farms, and many other vegetables have not got enough size to market, and the heat has also caused peppers and guindillas to change their flavor, and they are more spicy this year.

The abertzale trade union has approved his reports on organisation and agricultural policy in the VIII Congreusa, familial agriculture and livestock a defence of a model, food sovereignty eta la size of farms eta etaDistribution of public aid a.

According to the environmental group, the case of sole "is particularly worrying" not only because of its impact on the quality of marine waters, but because being a carnivorous species may pose a danger to other fish species. 

The Aquacria Basordas project envisages an investment of 170 million euros over ten years and will be located on the land of the former nuclear power plant.

The measure, which has been in force since November 2025, has been suspended once it has been established that there are no cases of wild birds and that temperatures have risen.