The six interprofessional organizations of the livestock-meat sector, ASICI, AVIANZA, INTERCUN, INTEROVIC, INTERPORC and PROVACUNO, are satisfied with the approval of the agri-food PERTE (Strategic Project for economic recovery and transformation) by the Council of Ministers on February 8 , which will allow progress in the horizons of transformation of the sector under the levers of sustainability and digitalization, to strengthen the Spanish position at the forefront of the European and world meat sector.
The interprofessionals thank the Government for considering the agri-food sector -of which the livestock-meat chain forms an important part- as a strategic sector for the country, an assessment that is reflected in the approval of this PERTE, integrated into the Recovery Plan Transformation and Resilience, and which is of singular relevance for Spain. With this approval, the pioneering initiative promoted by the livestock-meat interprofessionals bears fruit, a sectoral strategic plan linked to European funds that, today, is already being developed by a vast number of companies throughout the chain ( ranchers and industries) throughout Spain.
This livestock-meat sector project is going to mobilize a significant private investment that accompanies PERTE, with the aim of increasing its environmental sustainability and its capacity for innovation, contributing to the economic recovery and transformation of our country. In this project proposed by the livestock-meat chain, 1,689 companies and livestock farmers from all the Autonomous Communities participate, of which 73.6% are SMEs, together with technological partners in the fields of the circular economy, renewable energy and digitalization , and with an important focus on the territorial problems of our country and the positive contribution to the structuring of rural Spain and the fight against depopulation.
The sector puts on the tables of our country, and in those of more than 140 countries around the world, meats and meat products of the highest quality and value. More than 2.5 million people live in Spain from the livestock-meat activity in all its phases, directly employing more than half a million people in livestock, another 200,000 in the meat industries and retail trade.
