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The Department of Rural Development of the Municipality of Puerto Lumbreras, in collaboration with the Department of Enterprise, Employment and Local Development, organized throughout the year 2008 a total of 25 courses for lumbrerenses agricultural and livestock sector, with an attendance of approximately 450 entries.

'These courses are held in the Municipal Offices Esparragal, at nighttime, to prevent movement, and adapt to a schedule that reconciles the rural job training, supporting a major effort to facilitate access agricultural sector training, "according to the mayor said Rural Development, Jose Maria Parra.

This week just completed the courses 'Animal Welfare in Pigs' and 'Tractor Driving Safety', while 'Livestock Pesticide Use', will start next November 24 in the Municipal Offices during office hours Esparragal 19:00 22:00.

'What we want with these courses, among which are' Animal Welfare in the Swine Industry ',' Ruminant Animal Welfare '' Animal Welfare in Transport ',' Livestock Pesticide Use ',' Basic Pesticides ',' Pesticide qualified ',' Occupational Hazard 'and' Tractor Driving Safety ', among others, is that both farmers and ranchers have the training necessary to comply with current legislation and achieve significant benefits such as decreased use of insecticides agricultural and livestock use pesticides, reduction in fuel use, training in use of techniques to perform these treatments and avoid accidents with agricultural machinery, always contributing to the improvement of the environment with lower CO2 emissions to the atmosphere and development of sustainable agriculture, "according to Parra said.

In the same way it should be noted that training courses are framed within the Strategic Plan 2008-2012, ECOPUERTO in the fight against climate change and CO2 emissions, as well as towards the implementation of renewable and clean energy.

Also, the council of Agriculture in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water in the Region of Murcia, has launched numerous campaigns to combat pests affecting crops of less polluting products lumbrerenses and used in organic farming as traps for biocebo used in the fruit fly in table grapes, citrus campaign, olive fly and treatment of red palm weevil.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras