The Mayor of Archena, Patricia Fernández, and the Councilor for Agriculture and Water, Andrés Luna, together with hundreds of Archenera and Archenera farmers, participated in the demonstration in defense of Water in the Region of Murcia, which is generating employment and wealth, and it is the future for our farmers and the Murcian and Archenera kitchen garden.
This demonstration, in which irrigators and farmers from other provinces of southeastern Spain have also claimed the defense of Europe's orchard.
Mayor Patricia Fernandez Lopez and Councilor for Agriculture have accompanied the President of the Central Union of Irrigators of the Tajo-segura Aqueduct along with the thousands of Murcian farmers and President Fernando López Miras and Agriculture Minister Francisco Jódar Alonso and regional deputies and mayors and mayors of the Murcian Community, who also joined the thousands of Murcian farmers, who have manifested in Madrid to ask for the most precious treasure for the Garden of Europe: water.
Municipal workers and citizens are concentrated in Plaza Ayuntamiento in support of the irrigators who are demonstrating in Madrid
Workers of the City of Archena and citizens in general, who have also joined, have gathered at the gates of the City Council, in the main building, in support of irrigators and farmers in general of southeast Spain, who are demonstrating in Madrid this morning to ask for urgent solutions to the great hydric deficit that suffers this Spanish zone, and in defense in addition to the huerta Murcia.
This concentration in Archena has been chaired by Councilwoman Mari Carmen Alcolea.
The Mayor of Archena and the Councilor for Agriculture, Andrés Luna, have participated in this event in Madrid, together with some 200 Archenera farmers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Archena