The Government plans to approve this Tuesday

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Decree to incorporate the unemployed and immigrants in the countryside The Government is expected to approve this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers a royal decree by which the unemployed and immigrants will be incorporated to alleviate the lack of labor in the countryside in a context marked by the crisis generated by the coronavirus pandemic, according to reports. confirmed to Europa Press government sources. Specifically, the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, already announced last week that in Spain between  workers are needed to cope with the harvesting of the crops in the coming weeks. Planas also confirmed that he was addressing this matter with agricultural organizations, the autonomous communities and the Ministry of Labor to see what measures to adopt to find a satisfactory solution to the labor shortage.

Countryside following restrictions on movement to stop the expansion. of the coronavirus. by Taboolayou may like Brussels disavows Josep Borrell and deals a setback to the Government for its support for UNRWA According to the newspaper 'El País', this royal decree, which will be in force until June 30, con Christmas Island Email List siders these measures "urgent" in order to guarantee production. Agriculture is "aware" of the problem of lack of labor in the countryside, taking into account that the closure of borders makes it impossible for workers from other countries to arrive, as Europa Press has been informed by sources from the department headed by Luis Planas. . "A possible solution would be to hire workers from the local environment, people who are currently unemployed and who could collaborate in these tasks," Agriculture sources have indicated. One of the options that.  



Being considered is the incorporation of people from other sectors, such as hospitality, tourism or commerce, who have become unemployed as a result of a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE). In fact, the agricultural organization COAG has stated that the field urgently needs "quite a lot of manpower" to start the stone fruit collection campaign and, until a few days ago, they only had 60% of what was needed covered. Aragon, Catalonia, Murcia and Extremadura are the main stone fruit producing regions (cherries, nectarine, peach, apricot or Paraguayan). For example, last year in Aragon they hired around people for this campaign, 85% of foreign origin and 15% of national labor. From the Agro-Food Cooperatives of Spain they have indicated that agriculture and livestock needs about 100,000 workers in the coming weeks to face the next.