The mayor, along with the councilman of Agriculture and Livestock, John Pagan, and members of agricultural organizations of the municipality, Asaja, UPA and COAG, and residents will move to the capital of Spain to support farmers and protect their interests
City Councilman José Martínez Andreo, through a Mayoral Proclamation, ask neighbors to join the claims of agriculture to promote the general strike for November 20, culminating in the demonstration to Saturday 21 November in Madrid.
The three political groups Totana City Council yesterday unanimously approved a motion requesting the Central Government to the implementation during 2009 of the negotiation tables to achieve a number of points in high demand by industry.
The mayor, along with the councilman of Agriculture, Livestock and Water, John Pagan, explained that the intention of the government team is to inform, promote and support the actions taken by the three organizations through which the placing request up of a series of measures to restore the viability of farms and to ensure fair prices for agricultural products.
Martínez Andreo has indicated that the Consistory will support all actions of agricultural organizations and that support is crucial sector and policy decisions, together with the European Directives, are essential for the survival of one of the most important drivers the economy of the Region of Murcia and Totana both.
In this sense, the mayor has indicated that through the Mayoral Proclamation is to inform citizens of the claims of farmers among which increased transfer agricultural prices, fair prices, sound fiscal and financing plan sector.
In addition, ask neighbors to attend the demonstration to be held in Madrid to join the voices, defend common interests and ask so many families totaneras solutions.
The mayor pointed out that the municipal government team has launched various initiatives to safeguard the interests of farmers and the grant of one hundred percent of IBI Hardy, lower tax mechanical traction for agricultural vehicles, and major campaigns Promoting Agriculture and Livestock, among others.
For its part, the mayor of Agriculture, John Pagan, has highlighted the extreme situation in which there is the sector that is very little protection, "so you have to ask to see the central government is essential to launch a series of measures to make a resurgence in the Spanish agriculture. "
Pagan explained that farmers do not demand that their products are very profitable, but require that the sector is profitable to keep in top condition holdings.
The mayor has said that the duty of the government team is to defend the rights of farmers, because now is the sector that is keeping the economy and would be more suitable if prices were competitive and the availability of water resources needed .
However, the council has encouraged residents of the municipality and farmers in general to join the demonstration, for which it has indicated it will make contact with agricultural organizations, which together with the support of the City, go to charter buses to go to Madrid.
Collection of signatures in defense of the Tajo-Segura
The mayor of Agriculture has reported that the Local Platform in Defence of the Tajo-Segura, an organization that is collecting signatures to process a Popular Legislative Initiative (IPL) in defense of the transfer, will be installed at the flea market on Wednesdays and artisan market in the Santa at the end of the month, to try to collect the maximum number of signatures.
