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The Socialist leaders of Cartagena, Torre Pacheco, San Javier, Fuente Alamo, La Union, Los Alcazares and San Javier have joined a Regional Bureau of Agriculture for a common front against the increase to 400 hectometres reserve water in the headwaters of the Tagus.
The Secretary General of the PSOE in Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, explained that the Shire's economy depends heavily on the development of intensive agriculture.
"Every municipality in the Campo de Cartagena agrifood industries have a large production capacity and create jobs."
As Castejón has advanced, the studies by different institutions, as Proexport or Fecoam, "it appears that the District provides more than 70% of the producers in the agrifood sector, which represents 50% of the regional billing" .
The PSOE fear that, if successful the Tajo basin plan in the terms set out in its draft, there will be "death" of the transfer to the river Segura.
In this sense, the responsible Regional Agriculture Bureau, Carmelo Luis Clemente, said that "what the PP is intended a sort of agrarian labor reform and we should discuss how many jobs subtract each cubic hectometer that take our water.
For every drop of water is a job and every direct job in agriculture generates between 8 and 10 indirect jobs, and this is the livelihood of many families. "
Clement pointed out that the employment rate in agriculture is 9'67% and its contribution to regional GDP is 4'58%.
"The creation of agribusiness, cooperatives and subsidiaries made our region more prosperous, modern and specialized Spanish territory, including in the field of agricultural research and technology, a reference to the rest of Spain.
In fact in 2010 in the region of Murcia agribusiness companies had 1141, 4% of the sector at the national level. "
The PSOE have stressed that "we are concerned not only in economic and social damage that directly affects regents 9440 in our region, as well as damage to other productive sectors such as tourism, since 50% of water transferred in the months of season High is for human consumption, but also, and especially, ecological and environmental damage that these agreements pose to maintain a balanced ecosystem in our region. "
Carmelo Luis Clemente concluded his speech by saying that "it is time to think that we can live in our region only the sun, as the PP claimed, it is time that we raise the balance between sun-earth-water should be the basis our livelihood.
Hopefully the water, which has long been used by the PP as a campaign slogan, which is now also judged and wash the sins of false promises.
In 2012 Valcarcel said that raising the reserve of the 240 current hectometres death would Tajo-Segura.
However, now a reserve of 400 consents hectometres that endangers the agricultural sector in the Campo de Cartagena ".
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The PSOE Regional Bureau has planned a series of meetings with associations and groups to collect agricultural sector concerns and work together to achieve a reduction initiative raised by the PP.
Source: PSOE Torre Pacheco
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