They denounce the ban on agronomists prescribing fertilizers in the Region of Murcia

The latest draft of the order establishing the Action Program for Areas Vulnerable to Nitrate Contamination in the Region, including the specific program for the Campo de Cartagena, "prevents the free labor activity" of agricultural engineers, agricultural technical engineers, and agricultural engineering graduates in the field of fertilization. This was denounced on Monday by the Association of Agricultural Engineers for the Mar Menor, which explained that the regulatory text specifies that "the prescription of fertilization will be carried out by the agro-environmental operator." This formulation, according to the association, prevents university graduates in agronomy who have not completed the enabling training of an agro-environmental operator from exercising their profession, generating the "paradox" that a doctor of agricultural engineering would not be authorized to prescribe fertilization without the new course, while a vocational training graduate who meets the ...