The agricultural organization COAG Cehegín, held, yesterday, an informative and participatory day in which various current issues for the agricultural sector in the municipality were discussed.
In it, the water situation in the region was discussed, as well as livestock and the measures to be adopted to preserve it and facilitate coexistence in the agricultural environment, the flower sector, etc.
On this day were present the Technical Team of COAG Cehegín and COAG Murcia, as well as the regional leaders of this group: Francisco Gil, Head of Organization, as well as Pedro García, Regional Coordinator of Agriculture.
Already, the closure, was the responsibility of the Regional President of COAG, Miguel Padilla Campoy and the Mayor of Cehegín, José Rafael Rocamora.
The farmers, in the course of this meeting, told José Rafael Rocamora, the discomfort among all those affected by the last snowfall of 2017, which, as we remember, destroyed large infrastructures of the greenhouses of the districts, especially in Canara and in cut flower crops and that, today, have not received the aid to which the Autonomous Community of Murcia committed, despite having requested in due time and form.
The Mayor of Cehegín clarified that "we, from the Town Hall, articulated and have complied, modestly, with aids of 10,000 euros and wanted to put our grain of sand and that the City Council helped to alleviate, in some way, the devastating effects that had a sector as important for our economy as is the flower cut "
In addition, José Rafael Rocamora, clarified that, "from the City Council, and from the outset, we urge and continue to make the Autonomous Community to comply with that commitment acquired with farmers and this sector"
Finally, the mayor ceheginero, wanted to involve all farmers who attended this talk of the project that has been developed from the Government Team of the "Strategic Plan for the Agricultural Sector", which aims to be a plan to develop it in the next years, for the improvement of the agricultural and food sector, which describes the lines of work to follow, to give the impetus needed by this sector in our town.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín