hundreds of trucks transport soybeans from Cartagena
Carlos Manso ChicoteFOLLOW, CONTINUEMadrid Updated: 03/24/2022 16:16h
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The serious situation generated by the strike of carriers is forcing the cereal industry and farmers to seek solutions to the shortage of cereals, basic raw material for the manufacture of feed to feed honey for animals intended for human consumption. On
Castilla la Manchagiven the situation in regions such as Menasalbas where some 500 families depend on livestock activity, the regional administration has been since the start of the strike last Monday, March 14
organizing several convoys to bring cereals such as soybeans from the port of Cartagena with a strong escort from the Guardia
Civil. This is the third one that is launched. Saving historical distances and context, we are facing a kind of 'airlift' - famously the one organized by the allies over West Berlin in 1948 - with which they seek to keep fed hundreds of thousands of cows, hens, chickens, sheep, goats and calves intended for human consumption.
Sources from the Ministry of Agriculture of the government of Castilla - La Mancha consulted by ABC, have reported d
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a third convoy of 108 trucks from the five provinces castellanomanchegas (Toledo, Ciudad Real, Guadalajara, Cuenca and Albacete) will complete two round trips to Cartagena (Murcia) tonight to bring cereal to the neighboring community. "They will arrive today escorted by the Civil Guard and return tonight with the load," they have specified. This is the third time that the regional authorities together with the Government Delegation in this autonomy, feed manufacturers and farmers join forces to avoid the worst scenario: the slaughter of animals. “We will continue working so that the food chain continues to function“, they have explained from this department of the Page executive.
Only, in this last convoy, there are 22 trucks from Menasalbas (Toledo) with a strong weight of livestock in its economic fabric, and 11 more trucks from Consuegra (Toledo) although there are vehicles from the five provinces.
"Patches"
"These are patches," laments the president of Asaja Toledo Blanca Corroto in a conversation with ABC in which she demands that the central government do what is necessary so that the trucks can distribute the cereal and does not hesitate to talk about
"cessation of functions". The person in charge of Asaja has been glued to her mobile for days trying to alleviate the extreme situation in which the feed manufacturers of this province find themselves.
Only in the Menasalbas region of Toledo there are more than 100,000 head of pigs, hens, chickens, sheep and goats whose diet depends on the feed that must be made with soybeans and other cereals that are being transported by the aforementioned convoys.
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