Since the state of alarm caused by the epidemic, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture has explicitly banned all types of hunting, including hunting, designed to reduce crop damage, which took place every year around this time.

The Valencian Community Hunting Federation has warned since the state of anxiety has been announced that a complete halt to hunting during these isolation weeks will increase the population of species and increase damage to agriculture, in addition to damage to wildlife and an increase in the number of roads traffic accidents.

Farmers in Spain on the sides of cows write the word VAKA - cow. So they protect their cattle from a bullet of inexperienced hunters.

Raul Esteban, president of the organization, emphasizes that, due to the difficulties we are in, the slowdown in hunting activities fundamentally affects damage control and combating predators. “We are in constant contact with the main agricultural associations, and we are well aware that farmers are very concerned about the damage to their crops. We believe that in many cases the situation is already unstable, and we demanded that the administration provide solutions for the scenario of a complete ban on hunting ”- said Esteban.

The Valencia Hunting Federation has, in addition to demanding decisions and assistance from the sector, in recent weeks requested that the hunting permit system be monitored in anticipation of damage, the request has been repeated several times. To date, the ministry has allowed all types of hunting and has not announced what measures it plans to take to eliminate the damage that could be caused during the complete ban on hunting, especially in cases where other autonomous communities have already begun to allow hunting in order to control damage.

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