There will be eight farms that will benefit from the support that will amount to approximately four and a half million euros and which will allow the establishments in the municipalities of Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo adaptation of cage-free egg laying systems.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development has found a solution the helpline for Poultry Expansion In 2024, a total of eight applications for exploitations from the provinces of Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo were processed, which together amount to 4.6 million.
This line, intended for making investments in poultry companies, is specially designed to help the sector eliminate cage husbandry and move to more elaborate modelssuch as free-range or organic chickens.
It should be noted that this call for 2024 asked for the possibility of soil improvement, both to adapt producers and breeding, which is essential for then there is sufficient replacement in the soil system. This call adds to the 17 approved applications with a total support of €11.3 million from the 2023 call for farms in Toledo, Guadalajara, Cuenca and Albacete.
Cage-free eggs
“With this amount, we have provided 15.9 million euros in support for 25 farms in our region between the two years 2023 and 2024. On the one hand, we help the poultry sector, which is a… strategic agro-food interests for the regionso that they adapt the cage system to other alternatives,” explained the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, Julián Martínez Lizán.
On the other hand, the advisor emphasized that, with this subsidy line, “the regional government is helping these farms to make investments aimed at gradually eliminating the use of the cage system for guarantee greater animal welfare on these types of farms” and thus respond to social demand in accordance with the obligations of the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy and the European Green Deal.
Finally, Martínez Lizán stressed that on the 20th the disbursement of 3.3 million euros of the 11.3 million euros approved last year in the line of support for the Expansion of Poultry will take place, “continuing to meet our payment obligations, so that the livestock sector, in this case the poultry sector, can continue carry out modernization, innovation and improvement processes”.
Between 2023 and 2024, the regional executive has decided to invest 15.9 million euros in support for 25 farms in the region to help them abolish cage systems and in this way also respond to the social demand that demands for these types of farms Farms are committed to animal welfare.