Mobilizing land

Submitted by laborate on tue, 22/01/2013 - 10:35 GMT.

Under the research project Property, land mobility and territorial valuation, carried out by the Fundación Juana de Vega, LaboraTe-USC and the Land Bank of Galicia-AGADER, a meeting was held in Santiago de Compostela to coordinate actions of different actors aiming act, through a pilot project, putting into agricultural production 1000 ha of abandoned land.

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The meeting was attended by the agricultural cooperatives Seragro, and AGACA, the Fundación Juana de Vega, the Land Bank of Galicia-AGADER and the Land Laboratory. All of them shared the diagnosis related to the need of increasing farms land to reduce production costs in dairy cattle.

The pilot project includes four main phases: 1) to identify a real demand for land; 2) to locate potential supply and make it real; 3) to advise farmers and establish a viable business plan; 4) to get funding to start the agricultural production.

Attenders considered the proposal interesting and agreed on continuing working on the pilot project definition. A new meeting is scheduled in the coming days with farmers demanding land. For this meeting, the main barriers to access to agricultural land by farmers will be explored.

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