The unrecorded bloom and ornamental plant sector is the agricultural sphere that has been most affected by the crisis induce by the Covid-19 computer virus , as it has suffered a total drop curtain in uptake both nationally and internationally which will entail the bankruptcy of all nursery and garden centers in Spain . For this understanding , FEPEX has asked the Ministry of Agriculture to approve pressing sinful measures , including an over-the-top system of rules of market withdrawal and an ICO liquidity line of reasoning for baby’s room .
Together with the collapse of home wasting disease and the block of sales outlets , both in Spain and in the EU , the sector has also been deprived of sales linked to traditional festival , such as Fallas , Easter and Father ’s Day , leading to a situation of total failure , with no panorama of recovery in the coming months .
According to the Secretary General of FEPEX , Jose María Zalbidea , the situation is so serious that the legal age of cultivator , nurseries , garden centers , etc . are commit up on this season and the only thing they are hoping for is to obtain sufficient liquidness to beget some debt and continue their activity in the coming months .
Since this is the only farming sphere that does not have access to CAP assistance , FEPEX has asked the Ministry to request extraordinary crisis management measures from the European Commission through an over-the-top regime of food market withdrawals , which would be counterbalance at market monetary value and be open to all feign party that prove their marketing activity . They should also found effective administrative procedures to facilitate their direction . moreover , FEPEX has requested the immediate establishment of an ICO fluidness line for nurseries , similar in subject to that sometimes adopted for other sector , so as to facilitate the producer ' transition to the next campaign .
FEPEX has also proposed for the baby’s room sphere to have access to the prodigious measures included in Royal Decree 8/2020 , namely the procedures for the break of contract and reducing of working Day due to squeeze majeure . Also , the agricultural insurance for plant and flowers should include the Covid-19 virus in the inclination of extraordinary risk of infection covered by the Consortium of Compensation .
cosmetic horticulture products play 3.2 % of the final plant production ( FPP ) , with a tame orbit total approximately 4,500 hectares and a time value at descent of the internal product amount to more than 1,000 million Euro . The main producing regions in Spain are Andalusia , the Region of Valencia , Catalonia , the Canary Islands , Galicia , Aragon and Murcia . The social gainfulness of the production is very high , given the vast amount of labor involved , with about 40,000 job concentrated in areas where dependency on this sector is very eminent .
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