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Councillor for Agriculture and Rural Development, Fisheries and Livestock, Magdalena Mendez, participated on Tuesday in a conference held at the Ministry of Agriculture and Water of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia (CARM) on "Water reuse and sludge from of sewage treatment plants. "
After the conference, the mayor announced that "we will proceed to the use of sludge from the scrubbers in agriculture in the municipality, instead of sending them to a composting plant as has been done so far."
The mayor stressed that "the use of such sludge can be very beneficial to our lands because, in addition to its properties similar to those of manure, sludge would come at zero cost to farmers of the township, who provide all the information required in this direction. "
During the conference, Mendez talked about these issues with the Deputy Director General of Environmental Quality CARM, embodies Molina, and ESAMUR managing director, Manuel Albacete.
Also, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Mazarrón Town Council continues its work of knowledge and study of various crops that may be of interest to the municipality of Mazarrón.
On this occasion, the councilor of the consistory Mendez and technicians have visited several farms in the Upper and Middle Vegas Region of Murcia to understand the behavior of different varieties of stone fruits like peaches, Paraguayan, nectarine or apricot.
The mayor and technicians visited a farm in the Ministry of Agriculture and Water dela CARM, and the Centre for Soil and Applied Biology Segura (CEBAS) and several individual farmers.
Magdalena Mendez explained that "learn firsthand what is the behavior of these varieties of stone fruits, leads us to be able to inform and help farmers in the municipality on which new crops can be helpful for our agriculture, both for their viability as climatological economic ".
The idea, as the councilor pointed out on several occasions, is "to be able to diversify agriculture in Mazarrón complementary to tomato crops. Al kiwi, avocado, mango and cherimoya, whose behavior we have seen in other farms, join now, studies and research on these stone fruit that are having such good results in other parts of our region. "
The Mayor of Mazarrón, Ginés Campillo, said that "this constant work of the departments Agriculture and Rural Development, Fisheries and Livestock is another example of our interest because agriculture remains one of the economic engines of the municipality, supporting farmers and farms as sources of employment. "
The mayor has said that "compared to others, which resulted from side to our land, we are committed to her and their rural areas as places of wealth to boost the local economy."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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