The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has disseminated this Monday, through the electronic headquarters of the Spanish Agrarian Guarantee Fund (FEGA), a first list with 140,559 farmers and ranchers who appear as potential recipients of the extraordinary direct aid intended to compensate for the loss of income in farms in Andalusia and Extremadura affected by the succession of storms recorded in January and February.
In this document, the individual amounts that included holders could receive are detailed, with amounts ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 euros. Royal Decree-Law 5/2026, of February 17, which establishes urgent measures in view of the damages caused by different adverse climatic episodes, especially in Andalusia and Extremadura, contemplates several lines of support for the agricultural sector for a total of 2,874 million euros, of which 2,174 million are allocated to direct aid.
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, announced the publication of this first list upon his arrival at the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Brussels, framing it within a payment schedule that will be completed during the month of April with new lists of beneficiaries, with the intention of covering all those affected by this meteorological phenomenon.
"This is the first report, in the coming weeks successive ones will be published. We hope to complete it during this month of April with the successive reports to complete the payments in relation to this matter," the minister has pointed out.
The department has indicated that a second list will be released shortly, so the holders of operations that do not appear in this first relation must wait for the next publication.
To collect the aid, the holders listed in the list will have to present an express acceptance within a period of 15 business days, between April 7 and 27, both inclusive. The acceptance of the aid implies the responsible declaration in which the beneficiary expressly confirms that their holding has suffered damages due to adverse weather phenomena and that the assigned amount does not exceed the cost of said damages.
Agriculture has stressed that this procedure is "essential", given that these public aids are exclusively destined to compensate real and duly accredited losses in the damaged farms.
The Department headed by Luis Planas stresses that with this measure, progress is made in the application of the actions foreseen in the royal decree-law, with the aim of supporting the agricultural sector and facilitating the recovery of the farms affected by these extreme meteorological episodes.