ARAG-Asaja has urged the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Ministry of Finance to proceed "with the urgent publication of the Order for the reduction of agricultural modules corresponding to the 2025 fiscal year, the approval of which remains pending despite it already being May 2026".
According to the agricultural organization's complaint in a statement, this delay "is generating enormous uncertainty among farmers and ranchers".
The entity considers it "inadmissible" that, "at this stage of the year, thousands of agricultural professionals are still unaware of the tax reductions applicable in the objective estimation system of personal income tax, known as the agricultural module system, especially after a year marked by economic losses, increased costs, and adverse weather and health conditions suffered in numerous sectors".
ARAG-ASAJA underlines that "already last January it formally conveyed to the central government the need to extend tax reductions to more affected agricultural productions".
In this regard, it recalls that it "sent a letter to the Government delegate in La Rioja, Beatriz Arraiz, as well as to the Ministries of Finance and Agriculture, accompanied by a detailed technical report on the situation of different crops and livestock farms in the region".
The organization details that among the sectors for which it claims a reduction in modules are "vineyard, cereal, stone and pome fruit, mushroom and fungi, as well as different livestock productions: dairy and beef cattle, intensive sheep and goat farming, poultry and beekeeping".
Regarding the vineyard, ARAG-ASAJA explains that "last season was conditioned by storms and the need to intensify treatments against mildew, which sent costs soaring without translating into higher production".
Likewise, it points out that "crops such as pear and apple trees suffered significant damage from bacterial fire, while the mushroom sector suffered heavy losses due to the proliferation of the hair disease".
Regarding livestock farming, the organization indicates that "the incidence of diseases such as avian influenza, lumpy skin disease, or African swine fever forced the reinforcement of sanitary and prevention measures, considerably increasing farm costs".
Furthermore, it warns that "to all of this -they add- is added the growing impact of wolf attacks in the region, with hundreds of animals dead, injured, or missing during the last year".
For this reason, ARAG-Asaja reiterates that "the Government of Spain must act with speed and sensitivity towards the agricultural sector, approving as soon as possible a fair, broad, and adapted Order of modules to the reality that farmers and ranchers are going through".