Con un 25% del término municipal, algo más de 1.300 hectáreas, dedicado a la agricultura, este sector da trabajo, actualmente, a 46 personas en el municipio, o lo que es lo mismo, un 0’32% de los trabajadores en activo.
This is one of the data that emerges from the conference-debate on the reality of the Valencian agricultural sector and its fit in the city model of Dénia foreseen in the General Structural Plan, which it organized CEDMA together with the Federation of Neighborhood Associations last Tuesday.
And, knowing the interest of the government team in recovering the land for cultivation and making it a field of work in Dénia, invited the president of AVA-ASAJA, Cristóbal Aguado, to explain what is the current situation of the agricultural sector Valencian and the possibility of its implementation as a basic economic model for Dénia.
In this sense, Aguado affirmed that if you wanted to transform this model into an economically profitable one, you would also need a large amount of water flow. As stated in this conference-debate, the Ministry of the Environment has in its catalog the aquifers of the Marina Alta and specifically from Dénia as "bad", so that if the idea of carrying out an intensive irrigation crop is carried out, the CHJ would issue an unfavorable report.
The president of the farmers warned that the belief that the protection of an area by a landscape issue will regain agricultural activity is wrong, since the opposite is often the case. «En un mercado libre, si proteges el suelo e impones condiciones al agricultor, lo estrangulas", he claimed.
Asked about the creation of an agricultural park, which he said is more interesting, Aguado affirmed that it would be necessary to implement new agricultural infrastructures (such as industrial warehouses for processing) and intelligent irrigation systems, as well as offering a series of advantages to farms. agrarian For this reason, the feasibility of creating or not creating such a park should be studied and would require an adequate budget. «Si no se hace así»he insisted «esto no tiene ningún sentido y carece de lógica», since the fields, far from being cultivated, will end up being waste.
