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Last Tuesday the explosion came: This year’s beet campaign, whose announced start was applauded with relief, will be the last at the Leopoldsdorf location, indicating that the sugar factory will stop opening next year. We inform:
Those affected reacted in shock, the mayor of SP, Clemens Nagel, invited a press conference with the third president of SP Landtag, Karin Renner, and the national councilor of SP, Katharina Kucharowits, at the town hall.
“It is a completely dark day for the commercial city and the entire region,” Nagel opened his comments on this bad news.
He himself learned of the closure just when an informational event for Agrana employees began to announce the closure of the factory: “After almost 120 years of sugar production, which has always been a guarantee of employment and prosperity in the community. Soon there will be 150 year-round employees and 100 seasonal workers out of work. A huge disaster for them and their families. “
For the most part, these are highly skilled workers and skilled workers: “Where else should an Agrana centrifuge installer, a ‘sugar cook’ work?”
In addition to the painful loss of jobs, the financial impact on the community should not be underestimated: “In good years we earn 300,000 euros in local taxes, about five percent of the income from our community budget. And that where we are currently building a water pipeline and the crisis in the crown is affecting the economy. “
More “last, fine straw” areas
There is a “last straw” to maintaining the site if a total beet area of over 38,000 hectares can be guaranteed in Austria by November: 32,000 hectares were cultivated this year and 26,000 were harvested, Brussels beet and the spring drought destroyed 6,000 hectares.
“The year before, Agrana tried to convince beet growers with lucrative three-year contracts,” says Nagel, who calls for a non-partisan alliance to avoid disaster: “The SPÖ has proposed land subsidies or subsidies for control statewide organic pest. Obviously, the seriousness of the situation was misunderstood. “
He makes it clear: “This is the last chance to prevent Marchfeld’s last classic industrial company from becoming a ruin on a 72 hectare site. Because no sugar factory has yet reopened. “
Renner agreed, noting that, in addition to direct employees, there were also several companies attached to the sugar factory: “Just think of the ‘Gasthaus zur Zuckerfabrik’, freighters, craftsmen.” That Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Elisabeth Köstinger, has only now become a The summit on the subject invites her to marvel, “but our hand remains extended.”
Kucharowits referred to the local value creation campaigns: “Where is this commitment to sugar? Regionality needs regional products. “Everyone agreed that all decision makers must work together to achieve a seemingly desperate feat.”
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