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Jose Antonio Micol, activist for the defense of the garden and one of the candidates of Murcia's change, has reported today that, due to urban pressure allowed by the land-use planning of the Popular Party, "the garden has lost an area of fertile ground which could feed 55,148 people. "
The figure comes to relate the area lost in the last fifteen years, at least 1,489 hectares, with the amount of fertile soil each person needs to survive experts: 27 m.
We change Murcia denounces "the dramatic loss of fertile soil due to an oversized Urban General Plan that was drafted with the principal to meet real estate speculation."
The Plan released land for a population of two million inhabitants, when we do not currently 500,000, watching the garden of Murcia as a solar giant for speculation and ignoring the cultural, environmental and socio-economic values ​​that were being destroyed.
The loss of fertile soil now accounts for a large management problem to get hundreds of abandoned city environment solar, and having thus lost potential to create sustainable jobs linked to farming.
In addition, poor urban planning of the Popular Party "has been a serious decline in food sovereignty of our town, which should be guaranteed access of the population to food quality through local production, avoiding dependence on large companies and international markets, "continues Micol.
Citizen commitment candidacy revaluation of the garden of Murcia as a generator of employment and quality of life space, so it has added to its program a wide range of measures in order to implement the potential of our province.
To do this, he explains the activist, "we must begin by changing the General Urban Plan, where they will be corrected growth forecasts in a realistic and where the city is integrated into the garden in a respectful and balanced way, and bonus of up to 90% of the property tax to the grounds of the municipality to keep the farm. "
Murcia's change from creating a land bank to provide lease or transfer of farms, opposition to the sale of water that corresponds to the garden, supporting the creation of cooperatives and organic farming, advice on proposed profitable crops and farms, creating a seal of quality, and promotion of the local market and the acquisition of products in schools and hospitals.
In connection with the loss of fertile soil, the activist platform that brings together social and neighborhood movements and party members United Left, can and Equo, added that the damage "should be even greater," since recent data are 2007. "Keep in mind that the loss of fertile soil is one of the biggest problems that humanity faces as it is a very scarce land and is fundamental to food production," concludes .
Source: Cambiemos Murcia
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