Sen. Ossoff, Congressman Bishop introduces bill to protect Georgia’s family farms
CAMILLA, Ga. – In agriculture news, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is fighting back against unfair agricultural imports coming from South America and Mexico that are hurting Georgia farms.
Today, Senator Ossoff and Congressman Sanford D. Bishop Jr. held a press conference alongside Georgia agricultural leaders to highlight their Protecting Our Produce Act.
The bicameral bill would establish a five-year pilot program to provide support for certain specialty crop producers.
We were in Camilla to hear what they had to say…
“And the American people need to reckon with the possibility that fruit and vegetable cultivation and production in Georgia and across the country could be wiped out by imports from South America that are grown borderline, slave labor. That are grown subject to no environmental standards, with toxic chemicals that are grown under conditions of corruption and malfeasance. American fruit and vegetable growers, Georgia fruit and vegetable growers face the possibility of economic devastation because there is not a level playing field with their competitors in South America,” said Sen. Jon Ossoff, (D) Georgia.
“Have some unfair disadvantages when it comes to imports. This bill that the Senator and I had introduced, will be a pilot program to establish, private payments, to certain us seasonal and perishable fruit and vegetables, to the producers, to give relief from unfairly priced, seasonal imports,” Congressman Sanford Bishop, 2nd Congressional District, (D) Georgia.
Gabe Hutton reporting.
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