Irrigators Association of Rural Women Raiguero and Raiguero have been present at the opening of the International Fair for the Fruit and Vegetable, Fruit Attraction 2016, to claim the need for water to the Minister of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina.
With shirts where you could read "Murcia needs water .. but we need it now!"
they have transmitted Tejerina the water needs of the region, just starting a new hydrological year, and after four years of drought.
For Maria Costa, "we knew he was going to call off the protest on October 13 in Madrid, because agricultural organizations are politicized and do not think small irrigators, that we are unprotected," hence its own initiative, have wanted to move to Minister lack of water and the need for political action to solve the problem, according to Cadena Ser.
They have also delivered to Tejerina a bouquet of red roses as a symbol of the importance in this region also has the floral culture, in addition to agriculture.