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The Consistory also requested a grant Lorca 100% from 2012 to 2014 of the party liable for the payment to the farmer in insurance collection of corpses.

Councilman Livestock Environment and the City of Lorca, Melchor Morales, has reported that the Local Government Board has directed the Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine to request a line that links aid to facilitate the investment to be made by the livestock to adapt to the animal welfare law with special reference to the adaptation of breeding sows

Likewise, the Consistory has asked the government a grant of 100% from 2012 to 2014 of the party liable for the payment to the farmer in insurance collection of corpses.

Morales explained that with the imminent entry into force of the animal welfare law, the industry is forced to confront an investment to adapt farming the regulations, the cost escalates if anything even more if we consider that Murcia is a head meat production and Lorca in Spain accounts for 50% of pig farms in the entire Autonomous Community of Murcia, so that high livestock numbers in Lorca investment unviable which is the adaptation of farms to animal welfare law.

The council has explained that "the most significant because of its high cost is found in the adaptation to the law of sows with a total census of 52,621 mothers and a number of 316 farms, whose numbers are up to, with an estimated half 300 reproductive euro investment, the € 15,786,030. "

"Another major expense that have to support farmers and that certainly makes maintenance and viability of livestock in Lorca, is the contribution that the farmer must make sure in the removal and destruction of corpses, so ask your grant, "added the mayor.

Given the difficulties the livestock sector has been suffering over the past years and the supervening taking place in the municipality after the May 11 earthquake, is considered of vital importance contemplation by the Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine a line of subsidies or financial aid to help alleviate the situation of the sector and the thousands of families that rely lorquina of such activity.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca