According to the Minister of Agriculture, the fires connective active and so far, all of the damage
This summer fires in Spain has already burned 35,400 hectares of agricultural land, the Minister of Agriculture said on Friday, who stressed that the fires remain active and there is no balance of losses yet.
In an audition in the Senate (the High Chamber of Spanish Cortes), in which it insisted that all numbers are provisional, Luis Plana stressed that the fireworks reached 25,800 hectares of aurable land, almost 5,500 hectares of fruit productions and 2,180 hectares of vineyards.
The impact on olive groves “seems very limited,” he said.
The minister promised the government’s help to farmers and, in relation to European Funds of the Common Agricultural Policy (PAC), said the “possibility of continuing to be received the aids given to the force majeure” resulting from the fires.
Luis Planas added that he has formally reported to the European Commission the impact of fires on agriculture in Spain so that, “in the near future, once the fires are erased,” a damage is made and “mobilizing the” pertinent answers and answers.
Spain has faced a wave of fires in the north and west of the country already considered the largest since there are Spanish and European records.
The fireworks killed four people and have already burned 400,000 hectares in Spain this year, an annual record in the country, according to the data, still provisional, from the European Forest Fire Information System (Effis), which has been comparable since 2006.
The Spanish government declared catastrophe zones on Tuesday the areas affected by 113 large fires in the country in the last two months, 12 of which were still active on Thursday, the latest balance of civil protection in the country indicated.
Four government ministers led by socialist Pedro Sánchez were heard this week in the Senate at the request of the Popular Party (PP, right) because of the fires.
After the Minister of Defense and the Environment and the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Minister of Agriculture was today heard.
The fires have mainly reached three autonomous regions (Galicia, Castile and Leo and Extremadura) governed by the PP, which has accused the government of not having expeditated the means requested by regional executives (whom it is up to the fight against fireworks) or that there was a delay in activating the European Civil Protection mechanism.
The government rejected the criticism and assured that, on the contrary, it anticipated the activation of national and European aid to the first formal requests of the regions, allowing, for example, to arrive in Spain of means of 10 countries.
