Messages calling for a boycott of the strawberry from Huelva have multiplied on social networks and instant messaging applications after the Plenary of the Parliament of Andalusia approved the processing of the bill promoted by the PP and supported by Vox to regularize some 600 family farms in the Doñana area (a proposition that was voted against by all the opposition: PSOE, Por Andalucía, and Grupo Mixto-Adelante Andalucía).
The message disseminated, without logos or signatures, is simple: "Don't drain Doñana. Don't consume these," over a photo of strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. The message, of unknown origin, could have strong consequences for "farmers who scrupulously comply with the norm and producers who have nothing to do with the depletion of Doñana's resources."
This boycott against the producers around the National Park could massively affect all producers in the province, which has nearly 12,000 hectares of berry crops, not just strawberry producers.
It's worth noting that the Bill presented by the Popular Party and Vox proposes the inclusion of land in the management of irrigation that already had this consideration before the 2014 Management Plan, granting them "water rights that will come from surface waters, unless the hydraulic administration of the hydrographic district where these lands are established a different source of resources."
The irrigators of the area that support the proposal believe it does justice to the producers who had been excluded, while the detractors of the initiative state it puts the aquifer that supplies the National Park, whose situation is already critical, at risk.
Source: huelva24.com