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Gloria Martín has asked to protect the uniqueness of this area of ​​the municipality and not to disconnect it "from its own roots", to avoid disastrous consequences for its natural environment.

It will also urge the Municipal Plenary to create a center for the transformation and commercialization of products from agriculture and organic farming to generate added value and create employment.

The councilor of the United Left-Greens, Gloria Martín, has presented the motion that she will defend in the ordinary municipal plenary session on October 28 in which she will request the support of all the groups to approve a battery of measures aimed at boosting the economic development of the Highlands of Lorca.

In addition to the already announced creation of a promoter Commission to request the Regional Government's Ministry of Agriculture to initiate the file for the approval of the Protected Designation of Origin 'Red thyme of the Highlands of Lorca', Martin will incorporate the petition for promote the development of the industrial land necessary to, through public-private collaboration, build a center for the transformation and commercialization of products from agriculture and organic farming.

In this regard, it will also express the need to create a municipal office to support trade, export, as well as the acquisition of investments, aid and subsidies, to the producers of the Highlands of Lorca, which will also serve as a boost for cooperativism.

The councilwoman of IU-Verdes has assured that the lack of institutional support has so far prevented the "take off" of an economic sector that is respectful of its environment and that is working very well in other municipalities because it "creates added value" and "generates job".

"We want what the farmers and ranchers of the Highlands produce with such effort can be transformed and sold from there, to create opportunities that improve the living conditions of the inhabitants of this rural environment."

Martín will insist on other measures that, at the request of IU, have already been previously approved in the Municipal Plenary but, however, have not materialized.

Among them, it will once again request the creation of a market for local organic products in the former commercial gallery of the La Viña neighborhood or in the launch of a citizen awareness campaign for the dissemination and promotion of the values ​​associated with agriculture and organic farming and the promotion of the consumption of local products obtained under these procedures.

It will also ask that the City Council promote the creation of the 'Tierras Altas de Lorca' brand, which will identify the raw materials and products made in the towns of the north of the municipality to promote and promote them within and outside the borders of the municipality, as well as the creation an ecological badge to promote environmentally friendly products and services.

Stop the macro livestock farms

Gloria Martín explained that a true sustainable rural development of this area of ​​the municipality is "incompatible" with the economic model linked to intensive livestock, which generates a strong environmental impact and is demanding a large amount of water resources.

Therefore, the mayor of IU-Greens has expressed the need to "shield" this part of the territory to protect its uniqueness and not disconnect it "from its own roots."

Martín has alluded to the crisis generated in the Mar Menor to warn that Lorca also faces his own threats to his environment.

"We are seeing the painful consequences of wild urbanism and uncontrolled agribusiness and we want to prevent that from happening here.

For this reason, the councilor will request in plenary the modification of articles 148.2 and 148.3 of Volume II, of the Urban Regulations of the General Municipal Planning Plan to extend the minimum distances required for the implementation of new macrogranjas, and to establish a "maximum quota "That prevents the proliferation of intensive farms close to the population centers hinder the development of alternative sustainable rural development activities, generate a negative environmental impact and reduce water resources for livestock and organic farming.

"It is not necessary to make a structural modification of the General Plan," said Martin, who said that it is enough to make changes in these two articles that, in addition, were already submitted to variations by the City Council in 2012 at the request of the Association Regional of Livestock and Agriculture Entrepreneurs of Guadalentín (ACEGA).

"If, at the time, this demand from businessmen was met, it seems logical that a new modification can now be made to make the PGMO compatible with the social, economic and environmental reality experienced in these villages," said Martin.

The mayor has commented that she will make this request after the deadline agreed with the government team, which expired on September 30, has expired, without the latter having taken the initiative to reconcile residential and livestock land use in the municipality.

"We have acted with loyalty but, given the inaction, we owe it to the neighbors and we are going to take this matter to the Plenary," he concluded.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca