Michaela Kaniber calls for more appreciation for agriculture

Created: 10/05/2022, 12:00 p.m

By: Klaus Kuhn

Thanksgiving with Minister in Grucking with (from left) Franz Hofstetter, Hans Wiesmaier, Michael Hamburger, Michaela Kaniber and Andreas Lenz.

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Minister of Agriculture Michaela Kaniber was a guest in Fraunberg, where the CSU working group "Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry" celebrated the harvest festival.

The minister campaigned for the state of agriculture.

Grucking – Chairman Michael Hamburger was pleased to be able to welcome so many guests to the Weinstüberl at Wirt z'Grucking after a successful Thanksgiving service that took place in Reichenkirchen.

"Regional rural agriculture in the district of Erding and in Upper Bavaria must continue to be possible," he demanded.

“Local hero” Hans Wiesmaier, as Hamburger called him, provided the music.

They call themselves “Pfenningguad” and come from Fraunberg.

Hamburger particularly welcomed the rural women: "Without them, nothing would work on the farm." The minister herself promised to avoid "Berlin bashing", but she couldn't do without polemics when she said that it was fine to do so think about who was in church from the Greens on Sunday.

But it was also quite funny that day when Hamburger calmed the guest down with the words: "We have good white sausages here!" He was referring to the minister's test of vegan white sausages at the Oktoberfest, which, as is well known, went wrong.

But the minister was concerned with pointing out “structural breaks”.

In her tenure so far since 2018, she says the number of people fed by a farmer has increased from 97 to 137.

And it goes on in this style, because this number points to the structural change, which, according to her, is due to the many regulations and laws from Berlin.

She called for "appreciation of the service providers" and that "the consumer remembers who feeds him".

VAT should be set to zero for all staple foods, she said, and not just for fruit and vegetables, if you please.

For the minister it was clear: "We need livestock farming." How else could cycles like that of rapeseed be maintained: The residues from rapeseed oil production are great animal feed.

So the animals should be there too.

She referred to the research projects that could also affect new products that are well adapted to climate change, such as chickpeas, which have become fashionable for many and come from dry areas.

"I don't care what young people eat, the main thing is that the product comes from Bavaria." Echt Erding cited it as a positive example of how regional value creation can work.

For the minister it is clear: "There will be more years of drought, and the intervals will be shorter."

"We need the land for agricultural production." She is committed to "regional supply chains, which are the ultimate".

All of this was well received by the guests, who, as conversations at the table showed, have not forgotten the state government's cave-in to the popular initiative "Save the Bees".

However, the fact that agriculture was practically not mentioned in a long government statement by the chancellor, as MP Andreas Lenz pointed out, is something that farmers have not forgotten either.