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Gloria Martin, United Left-Greens, warned today the serious process of depopulation of villages north of Lorca.
According to the INE, the Altas Tierras calls have lost an average of 11% of its inhabitants only in the last five years.
In the same period, the overall population of the municipality of Lorca has declined only 1.1%.
For Martin, the cause of this traumatic demographic phenomenon that affects, among others, to the districts of La Paca, Zarcilla, Zarzadilla of Totana, Aviles, Coy, Dona Ines or La Parroquia, along with several places like El Rincón o Terreras, is due to high unemployment, lack of matching services with respect to the town of Lorca, the unfair distribution of the municipal budget, the absence of a water policy to ensure the normal development of activities related to the sector primary, or lack of initiative by the government to implement local development programs.
Therefore, in IU-Green presented a motion to the Municipal Parliament next October 28 to demand the development of a specific plan for revitalization of the Highlands of Lorca to address, from a social, economic and environmentally balanced, development this natural region.
To do this, they require the creation of a Local Development Agency, located in the territory, which is the administrative body of reference responsible development of the program.
Among its features are those of implementing plans advice, feasibility studies, training activities, management of direct and indirect financial aid, fundraising and public funding of regional, national and European character and encourage local participation in the configuration and development of this plan.
Martin has held citizen initiatives as played by Espartaria Federation, committed to promoting economic and social development of the districts high.
He also positively assessed the recent inclusion of this partnership in the local action group 'Integral', Society for rural development in the northwest of the region.
However, he recalled that this organization has been working for 21 years without relevant investments generated in the area.
"The situation is so serious that we can not fiarlo all to the celebration of the route from the top or a particular sporting event," said Martin, for whom he urges to launch an ambitious project to create productive fabric capable of processing and marketing generating the raw material, to create jobs and secure the population.
This happens, for example, support for agriculture and livestock farming, the development of ground to generate a processing industry, to promote cooperatives as a form of labor organization or by the creation of a quality brand, "Lands high of Lorca, "which act as own hallmark for products produced in the area, characterized by its excellence, genuineness and commitment to the environment.
Martin gave as examples the agricultural development on the cultivation of aromatic plants and gastronomic transformation, cosmetic or pharmaceutical use or livestock support linked to the recovery of native species and ecological production of food of animal origin.
The impulse to crafts and rural tourism, the creation of a center for environmental interpretation or landscape restoration would be other aspects to consider in the plan.
Gloria Martin all this must be, inevitably, with the necessary institutional support and the commitment of the City Council and other authorities to ensure the rational use of water as a strategic resource, subjecting them to criteria of social and environmental interest against speculative purposes.
"We want the Highlands of Lorca are an area of ​​welfare, progress and dignity for their neighbors," said the future Councilman IU-Green, who has asked the support of all political groups represented in the Municipal Council to end the "dying" situation experienced by this area and suffer its more than 3,000 inhabitants.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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