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The Director General of Agricultural Funds, Carmen Garcia Frago, this morning visited several farms in the municipality of Caravaca de la Cruz where environmental improvements are applied and biodiversity priority objectives of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is encouraged.

These farms benefiting from an annual European aid per hectare, called 'green payment' or 'greenning', which reported to the region during the last campaign European aid worth approximately 14 million euros.

Frago Garcia explained that among the practices carried out by farmers include crop diversification, maintenance of permanent pasture, of great importance for carbon sequestration, and the establishment of ecological focus areas.

To achieve the objectives of this measure, "these practices should it apply to all the eligible area of ​​the holding" he added.

During the 2015 campaign, 13,866 farmers in the region requested basic payment rights, with 386,335 hectares of crops declared, of which 221,895 hectares are entitled to it.

Have immediate recognition to the 'greening' those farmers who are engaged in organic farming, which are covered by the small farmers scheme established in 2015-those producers who earn less than 1,250 euros directos- payments, and those who They have permanent crops such as vineyards, olive groves, citrus, fruit and, in general, crops that remain in the ground for five years or more and not fall into the crop rotation of the holding.

Agricultural Funds director said that "the provisional results of the application of the 'greening' during this first year are satisfactory in environmental terms".

However, it recognizes that "there has been a significant increase in areas of major crops," although "there is an increase" in cultivation of certain protein surface, such as dried peas and beans, and legumes such as lentils and chickpeas, of ecological interest, as well as the land under fallow.

a positive effect on crop diversification and increased biodiversity and soil quality is also observed, as a number of farms, while maintaining the same total acreage has increased the number of crops in 2015, in relation to the previous year.

Source: CARM