The Union of Small Farmers (UPA) of Aragon has reiterated its warning that, without the implementation of a state Law on Family Farming, which they have been demanding for more than ten years, it will not be possible to curb the advance of "the massive purchase of land by investment funds, which threatens to leave agricultural production in the hands of large corporations".
According to the agricultural organization, this regulation would also serve to safeguard the future of the family farming model, which remains the predominant one in Aragon and in numerous autonomous communities.
UPA has censured that the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, considers it "useless" to move forward with this law before the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) concludes, since, in its opinion, it is the Family Farming Law that "should set the pace for Europe, and not the other way around".
For the organization, this law "can lead the way for community agriculture and livestock farming", just as it already happened with the Law on the Food Chain, the Directive on Unfair Commercial Practices, and the Law on Shared Ownership.
Aragon has had an autonomous Law on Family Farming since 2023, although the norm was modified in 2025. For this reason, UPA has called on the new Minister of Agriculture, Arancha Simón, to guarantee its effective application and that it be definitively adjusted to the family farming model, which accounts for 99% of the agricultural and livestock fabric of the community.