The Mayor of Cehegín, José Rafael Rocamora and the Councilor for Agriculture, María José Martínez Verdugo, visited last week the new Minister of Agriculture, Francisco Jódar.
It was a first contact that served, in turn, to find out the state in which the pending aid of the Community, to mitigate the damages caused by the snowstorm of last January and that was devastating to The floriculture sector in the municipality.
The Mayor explained that "in this first meeting with the new Director, we have shown the need for such support that farmers, especially flower growers, have been waiting since the beginning of the year"
"Today, José Rafael Rocamora has continued to point out, the farmers have had to get ahead thanks to their own means, and not because of these expected aids to which the Community has committed. In this sense we have come to claim them because they are very Necessary and, hopefully, in a short time the call order will be available, because the only aid that the farmers have received is what this Government Team made available to them. "
Finally, the Mayor explained that "other issues that we have also discussed have been those related to the work we are doing from the City Council, and from different groups of professionals in the agricultural world, for the preparation of a Strategic Plan for agriculture; This sense, we have also come to demand technical assistance, professional knowledge of the employees of the counseling and that can be made available to this initiative that will give our agriculture a greater future prospects "
You can watch a video with the declarations in the link ofhttps: //drive.google.com/open? Id = 0B8ZwOzWLK9_PaERkczRBZXJNcTg
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín