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Mr President, natural disasters happen again and again, and the time has come for the Commission to respond promptly to such situations. I should firstly like to declare our solidarity with all the Polish farmers affected by the recent frosts that destroyed most of this year’s fruit and vegetable crops. We would urge that they be given all the necessary support.
The Commission must also show solidarity in its response. We must also mention the hail and serious storms experienced in May in Portugal, which did serious damage to farms in the areas of Murça, Sobral de Monte Agraço, Azambuja, Torres Vedras, Alenquer, Alvito, Vidigueira and Cuba. We express our solidarity with the farmers concerned, and call for the support they need to be provided.
These situations demonstrate that farmers are in the front line when it comes to the effects of climate change. It is therefore essential to pursue public policies whereby the farmers are guaranteed an income, even during times of crisis and when crops are destroyed due to climate-related problems, be they frost or hail, floods or drought.
The time has come to set up a Community-funded public insurance scheme. It is also important, however, to guarantee protection of the markets for agricultural products and to promote a new agricultural policy that forms part of local and regional development policies that bring together various sectoral policies and give them cohesion and coherence.
What is needed is a new strategy for agriculture, one that takes account of natural advantages, one that incorporates the need for growth in productivity and production levels, one in which the climatic characteristics of each region are taken account of in productive systems, one that is aimed at improving food quality, one that is committed to increasing the income and living standards of farmers, thus securing the future for young farmers and one that guarantees the food sovereignty to which every country is entitled."@en1
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