Murcia agricultural cooperatives reaffirm their commitment to a more sustainable and healthy agriculture

The Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives of the Region of Murcia (Fecoam) has reaffirmed its commitment to organic farming as a more sustainable and healthy farming method, during the meeting of its sector of organic farming, held on January 15th. In that meeting he was re-elected as the representative of José Joaquín Huertas Martínez, of the Hortamira cooperative.

Of the 74 agro-food cooperatives that are part of Fecoam, 18 of them belong to the subsector of organic farming, a form of agricultural and livestock work “respectful of nature, without using toxic chemicals, without genetically modified seeds, without forcing the cycles of fertility or of feeding of the animals », as they explain from the Regulatory Council of Ecological Agriculture in the Region.

Fecoam’s agri-food cooperatives are firmly committed to a modern and environmentally friendly agriculture, continuously developing more sustainable growing methods and healthier products.

During this year 2018, the federation will continue promoting the participation of cooperatives in fairs of interest for the sector and promoting “transformations of traditional crops to organic”

In addition, it aims to work on a regulation that guarantees the safety of the use of inputs in organic farming.

In Spain, the Region of Murcia is the one with the highest proportion of the area devoted to organic farming on the useful agricultural area. Thus, in 2016, 12.84% of the useful agricultural area was certified as ecological, placing it as a leader in the national scenario, discounting the pastures, the poor pastures and the dehesas from the certified area as ecological.

Source: FECOAM

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