The tour will happen throughout 4 weeks in September, October, and November starting Inside the Central Coast on Sept. 20.
Meetingman Robert Rivas (D-Salinas), chair of the Meeting Agriculture Committee, introduced the dates for his second statewide tour To fulfill with farmers, agricultural staff, enterprise and labor leaders, environmentalists, scientists, elected officers, and completely different stakeholders To debate The biggest method forward for the agriculture enterprise in California.
“With the devastating outcomes of drought, COVID-19, and ever-growing wildfire occasions, The goal of the agriculture tour is to pay attention and study from main specialists and advocates By way of The autumn Recess of the 2021-2022 Legislative Session,” the press launch states. “These discussions Shall greater inform The subsequent legislative steps Important to assist restoration, fight local climate change impacts, and maintain California’s agricultural management.”
It continued to state that Rivas undertook his first statewide tour of California’s $50 billion-a-yr agriculture enterprise one yr in the past, By way of the fall of 2020. Afterward, he launched a report with numerous coverage ideas Referring to The subsequent hallmarks of the enterprise that he noticed competitiveness, resilience, variety, worker protections, meals safety, and sustainability and innovation.
This yr’s tour will further discover these themes and follows the Governor and Legislature’s current price range settlement, which included The subsequent funding for priorities championed by Rivas in his first yr as Chair of the Meeting Agriculture Committee:
- $1M for Monterey County INSV/PW leafy inexperienced evaluation
- $50M To decide the Multibenefit Agricultural Land Repurposing Program (AB 252)
- $130M for protected, pretty priced farmworker housing
- $1.1B Sustainable Agriculture Package deal
- $5B Climate Resilience Package deal
The tour will happen throughout 4 weeks in September, October, and November — kicking off in Chair Rivas’s District on the Central Coast, adopted by stops Inside the Central Valley, Bay Space, Southern Coast, and the Coachella Valley.
FALL 2021 AGRICULTURAL TOUR KICK-OFF Event
WHEN: Monday, Sept. 20 at 9 a.m.
The place: Hilton Ranch on River Road, Salinas, CA
Native Contact: Dominic Dursa, 916-470-4552
WHO:
- Meetingmember Robert Rivas (D-Salinas)
- Supervisor Chris Lopez, Monterey County
- Norm Groot, Authorities Director of Monterey County Farm Bureau
- Mary Zischke, Grower Shipper Affiliation
- INSV Taskforce
COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS: Asm. Rivas and stakeholders Shall be observing strict COVID-19 protectedty ideas, collectively with social distancing and masks sporting. We ask that attending members of the media and public please furtherly do The identical.
AGRICULTURAL TOUR STATEWIDE ITINERARY
Sept. 20-21: Central Coast – Monterey, Santa Benito, Santa Cruz Counties
Sept. 22-23: Central Valley – Bakersfield and Fresno
Week of Oct. 25: Southern California – L.A., Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Orange counties
Week of Nov. 1: Bay Space – Sonoma, San Francisco, East Bay
Week of Nov. 15: Coachella Valley
