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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Senator Adam Schiff is moving with Central Valley's workplace workers and cultivation leaders to tackle issues the ag manufacture is facing.
Senator Adam Schiff toured a workplace successful South Fresno connected Saturday. He says helium is committed to keeping section farmers successful.
"Enormously arrogant of each the specialty crops that we nutrient present and privation to marque definite that we support this manufacture steadfast and strong," Schiff said.
He says the archetypal measurement is getting to cognize the concern itself.
"I'm trying to get to cognize the manufacture and its antithetic forms passim California, but besides trying to place what are the unsocial needs of agriculture successful California," Schiff said.
Schiff is the archetypal California legislator to service connected the United States Senate Committee connected Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry successful implicit 30 years.
He says a apical precedence is figuring retired however specialty harvest farmers tin get the assistance they need.
"There are unsocial challenges facing the specialty crops. There's successful particular, I think, a heightened value connected the probe USDA does into pests and illness that tin conscionable devastate these crops," Schiff said.
Schiff is besides acrophobic astir however tariffs could interaction the ag industry.
"I cognize the president conscionable announced, what, a 50% tariff connected Europe, then, you know, our friends and our foes astir the satellite recognize and that they tin punish the medication by punishing farmers," Schiff said.
Schiff is focused connected moving intimately with Congressman Jim Costa connected cardinal issues farmers are facing connected a section and authorities level.
"Our agriculture assemblage cares astir a batch of issues similar anybody other astir the country. But the crucibles present successful California ever thin to beryllium focused connected the water, connected labour and connected trade," Costa said.
