One hundred farmers and livestock breeders have participated this Friday in Merida in a conference on the New Developments of the CAP, organized by Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Extremadura, sponsored by Unicaja and with the collaboration of the Regional Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Sustainable Development. The aim was to analyze the main features to be taken into account during the current campaign of single application for aid from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The conference was attended by Unicaja’s regional manager of Commercial Banking, Julio Morales, the president of Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Extremadura, Angel Pacheco, and the general manager of Common Agricultural Policy of the Junta de Extremadura, Juan Eloy Rodriguez.
Unicaja's regional manager of Commercial Banking has addressed the professionals of the sector to offer them the network of branches and their specialized managers in the region.
"For Unicaja it is very important to be next to a sector that is the engine of the economy of Extremadura and go hand in hand with Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias, which works for the interests of cooperatives in the region and thousands of professionals in agriculture and livestock breeding," he said.
The aim of this event, organized annually by Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Extremadura, is to analyze all the new developments of the single application of the CAP. Thus, information has been given on topics such as direct aid and Eco-schemes, Agri-environment and Climate and Organic Agriculture, Forestry and Areas with Limitations, as well as the new features of the Single Application 2024 capture program, the Aid Management System or the farm book.
Collaboration agreement
Unicaja and Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Extremadura have an agreement under which, in addition to the development of activities for the dissemination of knowledge about the current situation of the sector and the training of its members, allows them access to special financial conditions in the bank.
In this way, they can have access to loans for agricultural investments, to improve the sustainability of their businesses or to finance new crops, in order to support their projects to continue growing and increase their competitiveness. In addition, they can apply for aid advances, campaign loans, harvest advances or advances on agricultural insurance premiums.
Unicaja works to constantly renew its catalog of products and services and adapt them to the needs that professionals in the sector have to face at all times.
In this sense, it has already allocated around 800 million euros in a line of pre-approved loans, both to advance aid and to finance the modernization and improvement of farms.
Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Extremadura integrates more than 180 cooperatives with more than 34,600 cooperative members and generates more than 3,000 direct jobs, most of them in rural areas.
