Will preserve and enhance its agricultural and landscape values ​​and initiate actions aimed at creating a product name of the Huerta de Murcia.
It will provide a means of decent work for young people, unemployed and over 50 years and help the smallholding owners to recoup their land
Through an administrative record created by the city of Murcia, promoted by the Department of Planning, Environment and Huerta, who heads Antonio Navarro Corchón, you can manage and recover abandoned land uncultivated Huerta de Murcia.
This initiative, framed within the Plan of Action of the Huerta, allows holders who own plots of more than 0.1 hectares (1,000 meters) contact potential farmers cultivating their land in exchange for an income, through the concert of agricultural leases.
Thus, it aims to promote the socioeconomic development of the Huerta and increasing agricultural production environmentally sustainable model.
This action, explained Navarro Corchón, who was accompanied by the dean of the College of Agricultural Engineers of the region of Murcia, Andres Martinez Bastida and technicians thereof has immediate purpose "avoid the abandonment of agricultural land, and put into production;
increase agricultural activity in the area;
preserve and enhance agricultural and landscape values ​​of the Huerta de Murcia ".
In addition, "the profitable production with better mechanisms is enhanced and the use of organic farming, quality and traditional is promoted," stated the councilor responsible for the area.
Registration provides a means of decent employment sectors with difficulties in access to employment, such as youth, unemployed over 50 years, etc., as well as help smallholders land owners to monetize their orchard.
Expertise and quality
also, said Navarro Corchón with this project, "actions aimed at the creation of a designation of products Huerta de Murcia, mediantes obtained this system of land banks, distinguished by their specialty and their standards are started quality".
The Town Planning added that "will continue to facilitate the marketing and promotion of products of the Huerta de Murcia, inside and outside the boundaries of the municipality, in addition to its internationalization in the near future."
In short, with the implementation of a system of land bank it is intended socioeconomic development in the garden of Murcia with sustainable environmental model, which is conducive to increasing agricultural production with quality standards and attractive returns for workers and the landowners, promoting organic and traditional agriculture in the area.
In addition to facilitate the implementation of the system, will introduce a new bonus in the Municipal Tax Ordinance Real Estate to holders of urban land from the garden to put these into production to avoid abandonment.
Also, in order to facilitate the development of the system they have been developed five annexes with models that can be used for the application of high, low, commissioned intermediary, the lease and the express declaration of acceptance of the rules regulatory Land Bank of the Huerta de Murcia, respectively.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia