- The High Court of Justice of Navarra (TSJN) has issued a judgment annulling the size limitation of livestock holdings. Following this judgment, EHNE urges the Government of Navarre to defend this decree, to prevent its revocation and to forward it to the relevant authorities so that it is not annulled.
"The cooperative Valle de Odieta, owner of the macro-caserío de vacuno de leche de Caparroso, has resorted to the limits established in the foral decree, as the future plan consists of making even bigger a macro-caserio that milks at least 3,500 cows and produces more than 20% of the total milk of Navarra," he said.
"Limits must be placed on the concentration of productive resources, land, pasture and livestock," said EHNE. "The defense of family farms goes through the defense of the distribution of resources, and if one of the 160 farms we have in Navarra produces 20% of the total and also wants to grow, the milk they are going to produce in Caparroso will stop producing other people, continuously boosting the losses of family farms and the accumulation of resources and markets," he stressed.
For this reason, the union has stressed that "the primary sector needs political mechanisms that go beyond the logic of the free market, that set the limits of each exploitation, that open the door to economic freedom and the accumulation of resources".