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This is a proposal made by the councilors of Environment and Agriculture of the City, requesting the reservation of a roundabout entrance to the city where the monument is located.
The councilors of Environment and Agriculture of the City of Lorca, Melchor Morales and Angel Mecca, have reported that the government team will propose at the next full Consistory a motion claiming the work done by workers primary sector of our municipality.
In this sense claimed the establishment of institutional recognition by the City to the figure of Lorca farmers.
The City Council stresses that the primary sector is strongly linked to the history of the town of Lorca, having been a hugely influential factor in the development of roots, culture and origins of this land.
For all that has brought the industry to our town Lorca have a moral obligation to offer a gesture of recognition from society, and that the survey has the support of all sectors, social, economic and institutional.
The proposed concrete government team also in reserve the gazebo located at the entrance to Lorca, near the station of Palms, for the location of a monument, statue or monolith that there was decided to install, always consensual with the agricultural sector, while the necessary steps are initiated in order to obtain timely funding for the creation of that monument, statue or monolith.
The aldermen of the government team have said that Lorca is a historic and monumental deeply attached to its historical and geographical surroundings.
The first inhabitants of these lands were hunters and gatherers who lived in caves and sheltered near the rivers.
Dan proof Neolithic remains found near the river Guadalentin these people in their time that they discovered the land fertile and generous Guadalentin Valley that would be very coveted by the other cultures that have inhabited this place along ever.
Upon the Romanization of Hispania, this Southeast lands acquired a strong role, Lorca forming part of the itinerary of the Via Augusta that connected Rome with Carthage, Carthage and Gadir, which was an important commercial enhancement and a boom in the exchange of agricultural products.
Special mention of waterworks useful for our garden Romans left us passing through Lorca, as is the elevation of the bed of the Poor Clares Guadalentin together, which enabled the contribution of river water to the garden to irrigate the fields, reversing the flow of water from the coastline of Tiata.
Since 756 Lorca became administrative and economic capital of Cora Tudmir to the founding of the city of Murcia in the 826.
During the domains of Abd al-Ramhman III and his son Hakim III were major infrastructures in the municipality with the contraction of roads and boosting irrigation systems lorquina orchard, extending these those made by the Romans.
With the fall of the kingdom of Granada in 1492 and the disappearance of the border begins a new phase of urban changes, economic and commercial Lorca.
The sixteenth century was a period of great prosperity in which there is an important increase in population.
Lorca reached 9,500 inhabitants, farming the main source of economic wealth, which will result in the configuration of an oligarchy that Copara public office.
By becoming an agricultural town Lorca in colonizing much of the natural region important public buildings will be constructed as the Lonja, the jail, the Granary or La Merced, among others.
The eighteenth century holds for Lorca a period of great splendor in which the production model is diversified with the opening of new lands in the higher councils to meet the basic needs of the growing population.
At this time implantation occurs in monoculture barrilla for the production of glass and soda to soap.
In 1713 Lorca is provided with the first municipal ordinances that adjusts the three basic types of activities: the agricultural, urban and police.
Much of this economic and social prosperity is that Lorca is one of the main beneficiaries Spanish regions Bourbon reformism under Charles III.
In this fertile time occurs land distribution, land reform, irrigation ditches and layout of new roads, the beginning of the late transfer from Castril and Guardal rivers, and the construction of bridges and Valdeinfierno swamps, the largest of his time in Europe.
The first decades of the nineteenth century are harmful to the municipality by a cluster of adverse events: rupture of the second dam of Bridges, the effects of the Revolutionary War, yellow fever and weakening political, economic and administrative.
The first decades of the twentieth century are characterized by a weakening of economic structures as a result of mining decline and periodic droughts, leading to a large current outward migration.
After the Civil War there is a depopulation of the city in favor of rural areas.
From the 70 Lorca began a large economic and social transformation, producing economic diversification benefit of the industry and other services.
But despite that agriculture remains vital to the base of the local economy and generating employment focus.
From the 80s there is a radical change in agriculture Lorca which is determined by the entrepreneurial spirit of farmers and ranchers, beginning a record modernization and improvement of farms.
This change in the identity of the sector sparked the beginning of the agricultural cooperatives, making possible significant improvements in the production system that generated highly profitable productions and quality.
But this fertile period is characterized by the arrival of the Tajo-Segura.
This was a major change in the town, as it provided the necessary security to farmers and ranchers who are out to conquer foreign markets with great success, thanks to the good work of professionals and the quality of its products.
This boom was made possible by the support of government in creating cooperatives, irrigation modernization or improvement plans, among other actions, but also through the work, sacrifice and efforts of men and women from the countryside, who have made under a way of life with which it has succeeded in offering high quality food and sanitary virtues soaring population.
We can not overlook the importance of water in our history.
The municipality of Lorca has been linked to the struggle for water or, better, to the scarcity of this precious element, which has resulted in a constant struggle to solve the shortage of precious and necessary element.
Water is a right of all citizens should not have borders, because the wealth generated is distributed throughout our territory.
At present, the agricultural sector has great economic importance in our town.
This is a sector that has weathered the crisis, keeping jobs, and even in many cases becoming a job opportunity for young people.
It also serves as a fixative in rural population, thus ensuring the maintenance and conservation of the rural and our traditions.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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