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The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, and the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, were handed 60-day licenses to open a ruminant livestock farms that have adapted to new environmental adjustment of the municipality, within the set up Ecopuerto Strategic Plan 2008-2012.
The City Council, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, has developed plans to provide advice and training programs to encourage farmers lumbrerenses adapting their operations to environmental requirements.
The Minister stressed that this adjustment to the municipal law "reconciles the farmers with sanitary applications, urban and social" and said that Puerto Lumbreras "has been a pioneer in carrying out this initiative."
He recalled that this county, along with Lorca Fuente Alamo, where 80 percent of pig farms in the region.
According to Cerdá "This initiative helps regulate a sector that represents 25 percent of final agricultural production, and generates much employment in these municipalities."
The owner of Agriculture and Water said "it is essential that farming is compatible with respect for the environment" and noted that "farmers and ranchers are the best environmental conservation, and the licensing ceremony is proof of it. "
On the difficulties facing the sector, Cerda said that "Europe must realize how essential it is the livestock sector."
Although management skills under the Community guidelines European brands "that is who should change the law and give preference to our products," he said.
The City Council of Puerto Lumbreras signed a collaboration agreement with the cattle ranchers from pig and ruminant sector to establish the conditions of production by the municipality of minutes of setting up and operation of livestock farms.
Also, made available to farmers a service to facilitate procedures for regulation of ruminants and swine farms.
The initiative was launched in order to facilitate and expedite the adjustment process in which they are embedded in the municipality farming.
Source: CARM
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