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This government team maintains its responsible position with animals, allowing the current reconciliation of time in accordance with the criteria of advertising and transparency.
This action is a decisive step in the social harmonization process marked by dialogue.
Maria Hernandez, the mayor of urban planning: «We want the small farmer, who has worked for his exploitation for years, on the lands classified by the general plan as urbanizable land without a sector, to be able to comply with all the required legal requirements, also with all the guarantees.»
Angel Meca, councilor and agriculture of animals: «Our priority is to protect the primary sector, which we know for certain constantly suffers legal fluctuations that force it to update its farms. What we do is favor their adaptation and prevent them from being at a disadvantage against the new and large industries.»
Lorca, June 10, 2025. Protection of the primary sector and the small farmer. This is the fundamental objective of the passage taken by the city of Lorca for the continuity of the sector and the prosperity of dozens of small farms in the municipality.
A decisive step that ultimately implies that certain pig farms can remain «alive» and within the commercial, due to certain municipal instruments that facilitate their adaptation to the current legislation.
«The primary sector is the basis of our economy and deserves a strong and firm defense. In Lorca, we have small family farms that have been working for several years, all their lives, some of them on the brink of retirement, and we have to face certain changes if they do not want to endanger their stability and, ultimately, their survival;
«The animal sector in Lorca is a fundamental pillar of the local economy, and its nature makes it particularly sensitive to the new and large industries, but also to the standard that frames its activity and covers various areas, such as production, markets, and foreign trade, animal protection, and animal traceability.»
«We will act when possible, with all the tools available, within a framework of guarantee for neighbors and criteria of advertising and transparency, so that these small farmers can meet all the requirements and have all the guarantees,» said Meca, who emphasized that «publication was not mandatory, but this team agrees.»
«Especially, the modification, indicated by Maria Hernandez, has been made of the creation of an urban transitory regime for existing pig farms affected by the regulations of the administration, determined in the order of the Ministry of Water, Agriculture, Land, and Fisheries, dated March 20, 2023, affecting the farms located in the lands classified by the general plan as urbanizable land without a start without a start without a start. Protected non-urbanizable lands by planning, except with a high degree of protection.»
«We are talking about the continuity of the transition regime whereby the current location of existing pig farms, which are favorable to the administrative regularization process referred to in the mentioned order, will be respected, allowing the necessary actions on the farms that must adapt to animal welfare standards in accordance with Section 5 of the mentioned article and changes in production.»
The main purpose of this specific and non-structural change of the PGMO of Lorca is the modification of Article 148.3, Chapter 11, Volumes II of the Regular of the PGMO, on the private rules of pig facilities, with the purpose, as we say, to the internal transitory regime for existence. Authorization attached to the conditions of the aforementioned order, and by which a working group with the Municipal Council is agreed upon. (It should be mentioned that this change does not alter the other parameters collected in the general planning plan of Lorca).
Well, «the result of this action and the joint activity between the autonomous community and the Municipal Council and all the technicians and officials who have participated in this process for years, it is concluded that there are 58 pig farms that are finally included in this procedure. These are traditional small pigs that have been working for over 20 years and that will not have or will not have any development or will not have the time or will not have the terms of the duration or will not have the terms of the duration or will not have the terms of the duration or will not have the terms of the duration or will not have the terms of the duration or will not have the time or will not have the terms, the terms do not have the terms or will not have the time. environment.
Specifically, 52 holders of affected farms have expressed interest in joining the transition regime, submitting the appropriate court. 6 Holders of directly affected operations did not submit the application.
It should be mentioned that reports were requested from 17 public bodies: 12 from the autonomous community in the region of Murcia (general directorates of natural heritage, animals, water, environment, among others) and 5 from the general state administration (the Segura hydrographic confederation and the Taibilla community, among others); as well as the environment in action and the association of naturalists of the southeast (Anse-Murcia).
From the report of the Hydrographic Confederation of the segment, it is concluded that there are 39 farms that justify the availability of water resources, having to adapt them to animal welfare law and all current regulations, as if it were a new pig operation.