As of: March 2, 2024, 5:32 a.m
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Meeting in Waldram: Green state politician Katharina Schulze (in red) met with BBV representatives in the bathhouse.
Including chairman Peter Fichtner (3rd from left) and Maximilian Kranz (4th from left).
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“Protecting democracy” – Green Party state parliament member Katharina Schulze was recently scheduled to give a lecture on this at the Badehaus meeting center in Waldram.
Waldram - But before that, representatives of the Bavarian Farmers' Association (BBV) called the group leader to the table.
While around 100 craftsmen, carters and farmers positioned themselves outside with around 30 tractors.
The aim of the meeting was to “get people heard,” said farmer Maximilian Kranz, who demonstrated at the round table that streamlining the bureaucratic hurdles was absolutely necessary.
It cannot be the case that additional work would be required to determine fertilizer requirements, which is mandatory under the Fertilizer Ordinance.
“We’re talking five to ten days.”
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Peter Fichtner, BBV district chairman in the district, reinforced this objection.
As a classic example, he took up the Fal-By app, which is intended to be used to respond directly and easily to unclear issues in multiple applications.
Nobody mentions that any error messages from the “new technology” mean countless additional costs.
The farmer is obliged to prove that the error message is a mistake and if not, further payments to the farmer will be stopped.
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The ministerial bureaucracy not only makes it difficult for farmers to run their businesses properly.
“In the social area of care,” Kranz warned, bureaucratic document management would require 70 percent of the working time, and 30 percent of the nursing staff would work on the patient.
That couldn't be the future.
He further addressed the CO2 and toll issues: “As a result, a freight forwarder with ten trucks now has 60,000 euros in additional costs.”
Afterwards, Kranz reported on a “good conversation” with the Green Party member of the state parliament.
He emphasized that he considers Katharina Schulz “to be difficult to accept.”
After all, she listened to the farmers “without immediately embarking on a confrontational course,” Kranz continued.
Green parliamentary group spokeswoman Schulze wants to take care of it as soon as possible
Schulze explained to the Rundschau: “In the course of the very appreciative and constructive discussion, the farmers also handed over a collection of topics.” She took these with her and is ensuring that they are answered promptly.
She will continue to have a “close and regular exchange with Bavarian farmers” – be it at events or in the state parliament or in direct exchange.
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Kranzer concluded by emphasizing that they do not want to attack democracy in any way with their protests, they just want one thing: “To be heard because things can’t go on like this anymore.”
“We Greens want farmers to be able to make a living from their work: fair prices, good pay for demanding work, for sustainability, climate protection, animal welfare and direct marketing and secure sales markets,” said Schulze.
“We will discuss this together, seriously and honestly.” After the discussion, she then devoted herself to her presentation.
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