The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has considered it “terrible” that PP and Vox oppose the withdrawal of olive oil planned for the 2026/2027 campaign by 12%, a position that he has attributed to “pure ignorance” on the part of both parties.
“It has surprised me that those who claim every day to be defenders of our rural setting, of our farmers and our livestock farmers,” he said during his visit, showing his bewilderment at these parties’ criticism of the measure.
Planas stressed that the management of the sector is proven with “facts and figures” and defended that it is a “very well thought-out and very carefully calibrated measure,” regretting the attitude of PP and Vox, whom it is assumed “defend the countryside.”
The minister insisted in his rebuke of the position of both parties, not knowing whether it responds “out of bad faith or simply out of ignorance,” since, he emphasized, it is an action “in defense of our farmers and livestock farmers.”
Regarding the cooperative sector, which Planas said he had described as an insufficient initiative, he recalled that cooperatives “also have an instrument, that of article 209, in order to be able to store and which is also provided for by the European Commission.”
Likewise, he referred to the position of some autonomous community that warned that more artisanal production could be harmed, and he replied that the measure has “sufficient flexibility to be able to be applied to different situations.”
Planas stressed that it is an extraordinary and temporary measure with which the Government seeks that “the quantities do not accumulate at a certain moment during the campaign” and, consequently, “that there is no alteration of prices, especially bearing in mind traditional olive groves, which have different costs from intensive and superintensive olive groves.”