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Live from Huerta believe that the problem of land abandonment is mainly the lack of profitability rather than generational change.

It is not viable agricultural production lead when expenses exceed income, and that's something huertanos complain.

The market prices have nothing to do with what they are paid to farmers, and this problem increases if we talk about the small farms that characterize the garden of Murcia.

To solve this is essential to support the market proximity, avoiding as much as possible intermediaries.

And this is relatively easy as the garden of Murcia is next to a big city with a large population.

It is rather to make a good management through a cooperative, which can have municipal support, and to ensure good distribution of products with a fair price for farmers.

To this one might add that the products Huerta supply the canteens of schools and public hospitals, so a small land to cultivate profitable.

the revision of the General Urban Plan is also necessary not to remain a threat.

Should be a realistic, inclusive and respectful of its rural surroundings General Plan, which has as its priority the conservation of Huerta as essential for the quality of city life agricultural, environmental and cultural space, and to guarantee food sovereignty the population.

Huerta Viva is also understandable that many lands are paying an urban IBI, as it represents a burden to be more productive.

It is an unfair tax collector that has a clear goal and that is due to oversizing General Plan that was forged in the shadow of the urban boom and speculation.

The Administration should work to reward people who maintain agricultural activity because its work provide clear benefits to all citizens.

To all this must be added the environmental restoration and maintenance of historic irrigation network and ensure irrigation water prohibiting the Board of Landowners band of granting water Huerta other communities of irrigators as has been approving in recent juntamentos.

Finally, we must address agricultural training for all interested persons, mainly in agro-ecology techniques, since food production quality and ecological protected under an identifying label represents one of the outputs to the profitability of the Huerta.

Source: Huerta Viva