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The Minister of Agriculture and Water stands in the second half of this year will begin training programs

The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, opened today in Lorca Equestrian Studies Center, which he said, "will address the demand for training programs for farmers, given the growing importance of regional equine industry."

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

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, trade events 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 the horse breeding and its constant evolution towards 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, being the most dynamic regions of the High Guadalentín, Cartagena-Mar Menor and Murcia, and about 8,000 horses, of which approximately half are purebred.

Source: CARM