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"Mr President, my home country and especially my group, have a particular difficulty with the way olive oil is dealt with in the proposal by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. This is because there are significant differences between the sums received per hectare in different olive oil producing areas. For instance, some areas of Spain receive EUR 720 per hectare, whereas other provinces receive EUR 156. That is a difference of almost 500%. How can these regions ever be expected to compete with each other? There is another paradox involved too. The most productive and profitable areas are those belonging to industrial owners, large multinationals, major landowners and producers. The situation beggars belief. To draw a comparison with the retail trade, it is as if we were helping large department stores such as
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and penalising small traders. I am sure you will agree that would not make sense. Well, let me tell you that nonetheless, it is actually happening. It is part of daily life out in the real world.
We believe the situation has to change. Small producers and family holdings must be helped, to ensure people remain on their ancestral land. If they were to leave, we would be faced with depopulation and all its ensuing problems. Ladies and gentlemen, if we do not succeed in encouraging these people to stay on the land, there will be a heavy price to pay for our failure."@en1
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