That is what Asaja Aragón Secretary-General Ramón Solanilla said last Thursday during a press conference on the current situation of agriculture and livestock farming. Solanilla said the organizations believe work must continue through the working groups and that protests are a last resort, one to which they will be driven if “the measures presented by the Ministry of Agriculture and the regional government do not meet the sector’s needs.”
AGRICULTURAL DIESEL PRICES RISE 77.8%
Farming organizations have raised the alarm ahead of the start of a new agricultural campaign over rising fertilizer and agricultural diesel prices. The latter has risen from close to €0.90 per liter in January 2026 to around €1.60 currently, an increase of 77.8%, according to Araga.
This increase in production costs is not being offset by the evolution of selling prices, which are influenced by market quotations and port benchmarks. These factors are compounded by drought and the consequences of forest fires. According to estimates by Asaja Huesca, these circumstances could leave between 35% and 40% of dryland farmland unsown this campaign.
For this reason, all the associations are calling for greater efforts from national and regional authorities to make the sector profitable, since their tax revenues have increased as a result of higher prices.
DEMANDS FOR THE SPANISH AND ARAGON GOVERNMENTS
Asaja is calling on the Spanish government to reduce the tax on hydrocarbons and introduce a national subsidy to ensure that the fuel used by farmers and livestock breeders does not exceed €1 per liter. It is also calling for safeguard clauses on cereal imports to be reviewed.
In the case of the regional government, Araga is demanding an "extraordinary support scheme for the cereal sector," prioritizing professional farmers, family farms, young farmers and dryland areas with low yields.
