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The Socialist councilor Lucia Sanchez announced today the release of funds from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) for the period 2009-2011 and whose deadline for applications ends on 9 April.

Sanchez explained that virtually all of the districts high Lorca are within the priority area of action, particularly in the case of the councils of Avilés, Béjar, Coy, Culebrina, Dońa Inés, Fontanares, Humbria, Jarales, Nogalte, Ortilla, La Paca, Torrealvilla, La Tova, Zarcilla Palm Zarzadilla of Totana and Zarzallico, encompassing a population of more than 5,000 inhabitants.

Aid subsidize between 40 and 45% of activities related to economic diversification into non-agricultural activities, the promotion of tourism, creation and enterprise development, provision of basic services for the rural economy and population, conservation and improvement of rural heritage and training for a maximum of 200,000 euros.

Sanchez said that the City Council is not providing enough guidance to residents interested in benefiting from this aid.

He therefore asked the Mayor of PP, Francisco Jodar, who instructed the relevant council to start an information campaign ahead of the maximum number of citizens to access these funds.

The PSOE mayor recalled that the districts also have high natural and environmental space "of vital importance," likely to benefit from the aid to the forest environment and productive investment of the Natura 2000 network.

However, he regretted that the passivity of the PP government team "is causing lost opportunities for the inhabitants of this area of the municipality."

Sanchez said that since the City "are not doing their homework" for outright grants of other administrations that could be financing between 50 and 100% promotion activities for retail revaluation of local products and crafts , the use and application of new technologies, upgrading and modernization of industrial small business, promoting the incorporation of youth and women as managers of microenterprises, support to rural artisans or staging in traditional markets.

In that regard, Sanchez said he does not miss the attitude of the PP and the first thing he did upon coming to power was "loaded at a stroke" artisan-cultural market in the Highlands driven in the previous socialist period.

Source: PSOE Lorca