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The new facilities have meant an investment of 475,800 euros, and have a ship of almost 600 square meters, open central courtyard, 14 boxes, 2 sinks of horses, and all the necessary infrastructure to study the equine industry at its best

The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, and the Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, opened today in Lorca Equestrian Studies Center, which will meet the demand for training programs for farmers, given the growing importance of sector regional equine.

The new center represents an investment of 475,800 euros, has a nave of 593.81 meters square, with a central courtyard open to 176.60 meters square, 14 boxes equipped with automatic waterers and feeders, two horses laundries, storage multipurpose, office and toilets for disabled people.

Its design is innovative and can be extended.

Cerda said that the Center for Equestrian "start in the second half of this year its program of activities", including a training cycle of average technician farms, with a module dedicated to dressage and horse shoeing, and as a program of job training, with courses in first aid and health of the horse, hooking, handling, morphology of the Pure Spanish and reproduction and artificial insemination, among others.

These courses are conducted in collaboration with the Employment and Training Service (SEF).

The counselor said that the Integrated Training Center and Agricultural Experiences (CIFE), Lorca already has facilities dedicated to pigs, goats and rabbits, in addition to Equine Artificial Insemination Center.

Equestrian Studies Center, "he said" will complement the existing facilities and will showcase and a benchmark for farmers, since it is equipped with modern facilities. "

Jodar said the creation of this Center is "a new sign of strong support by the municipality and autonomous region to the local and regional livestock sector, one of the key economic and industrial sources of these lands."

Similarly, the Mayor said that "Lorca is a showcase of equine livestock sector, thanks to Equine Artificial Insemination Center, FERICAB, which has become in recent years one of the most important fairs nationwide, and now the Equestrian Studies Center. "

With the addition of these facilities the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Technology Centre aims to be the Livestock and be involved in the management of it to farmers.

Therefore, Cerdá called "active participation of the equine industry in the new center just opened."

A booming sector

The regional equine industry has evolved over the past decade due to the use of animals in sports, hippotherapy, and rural tourism and high standing.

Also the fairs that have taken place in Lorca (FERICAB) Torre Pacheco (EQUIMUR) and Caravaca de la Cruz, who are among the largest in Spain, are, according to Cerda, "the tangible evidence of the growing importance of horse breeding and its constant evolution to pure breeds. "

In this development, said the counselor, "is especially relevant work being done in the CIFE of Lorca in areas such as research, training and breeding horse."

In the region there are currently some 1,100 horses to livestock farms and about 8,000 horses, of which approximately half are purebred.

Within these figures highlights Guadalentín County, where they surveyed 418 farms and 5,000 horses alone among the purebred and the Crusaders.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca