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The Councilor for Urban Planning, Environment, Water and Vegetable Garden, Antonio Navarro, signed this morning the agreement with the Secretary General of the Agricultural Association of Young Farmers of the Region of Murcia, Alfonso Gálvez Caravaca, for the acquisition of a tractor and a pruning crusher to promote sustainable rural development.

The aim is for small farmers to crush the pruning remains instead of burning them, thus reducing the climatic impacts produced by the burning of pruning remains and replacing current practices with others that are more sustainable and beneficial for the climate.

The huerta of Murcia is characterized by small exploitations and for its owners it is not viable economically the acquisition of machinery and different tools to manage their exploitation.

With the implementation of this agreement, Asaja acquires machinery for the crushing of firewood giving service to these farmers.

The environmental benefits of pruning trituration, instead of burning stubble, consist in the reduction of atmospheric pollution, decreasing the contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect, improving soil fertility, increasing the capacity of water retention in the soil, soil organic matter and landscape conservation and the reduction of erosion and desertification.

The Department of Urban Planning, Environment, Water and Garden will assume with this agreement the expenses of acquisition of the pruning and auxiliary crushing machinery, as well as the tractor to move it.

For the annuity of 2019, the amount of the contribution is set at 20,000 euros.

Since 1982, ADEA-ASAJA has been working as the most representative agrarian professional organization and among its aims are the representation and defense of the interests of farmers, ranchers and agrarian companies, the training of entrepreneurs, agricultural professionals and their employees, the processing of grants and subsidies. , negotiation of the collective agreement for agricultural, forestry and livestock work, participation in tables and representation forums at regional, national and European level, legal assistance to its members and the provision of all the necessary services for the socioeconomic development of its associates and the regional agri-food sector.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia