The pricing crisis in the Spanish field has become a real threat to the survival of the primary sector. While consumers pay more and more for products in the supermarket, thousands of farmers say they can no longer cover or minimum production costs. In this sense, social networks have become the speaker of a generation of Young farmers who show their fed up for the current situation.
This is the case of David Tomé, a young Torrox farmer who denounces that he has paid the peppers to 10 cents per kilo, while in supermarkets that same product is sold much more expensive. “It cannot be that the peppers have been sold to 10 cents per kilo. A box of peppers are 50 cents. Two boxes of peppers would be like a package of worms,” he laments.
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Denounces that others become rich at the expense of farmers
The calculation is devastating. While the young man shows his harvest, he points out that there are, at least, “600 kilos of pepper”, and that if he sold them at the price they offer him, he would barely take 60 euros after discounting expenses. “In the supermarket they are 2.69 euros and the farmer is paid for 10 cents,” he says pointing at 2.59 euros of benefit that intermediaries would take. “Who will be rich in the work of farmers? I do not plan to sweat so that others get rich at my coast,” he denounces.
Although the young man’s speech denotes impotence and tiredness, it also conveys a message of struggle and dignity. “We want a decent price, both for us and for the consumer. It cannot be that they get more and more of the farmers,” he emphasizes, while considering giving the entire harvest to a food bank or the people who need it the most before it is injured.
In addition, he warns that many colleagues are starting the peppers directly from the field because “it is unsustainable to continue working at these prices.” The lack of profitability, together with bureaucratic problems and uncertainty, scares the youth of the countryside and threatens the generational relief. “I want a future for agriculture and livestock, but they are making it impossible. I want us to live dignity,” he laments.
“Is this the future we want for the primary sectors?”
Thus, David, Tired of seeing how prices sink into the field While supermarkets inflate their margins, summarize what thousands of producers feel every day. “This is what we want in agriculture? Is this the future we want for the primary sectors? Is this the future we want for generational relief?” He asks pointing to the demotivation that this entails.