Farmers see "gross negligence" in leaving food production in the hands of third countries

The president of the Community of Water Users of the Campo de Cartagena (CRCC), Manuel Martínez, warned this Thursday that "food cannot be left in the hands of third countries" as it would be "reckless". Martínez, who made these statements at the CRCC's stand at the Hortifruit fair in Torre Pacheco, explained that the area with the most advanced irrigation and agricultural production technology in the world is the one the central government wants to leave without water by cutting the Tajo-Segura transfer. He lamented that the farmers of the Campo de Cartagena have been "demonized" for the situation of the Mar Menor, when they are the only ones who have met the requirements imposed by the different administrations on this area to continue producing, while the government "has done nothing". "After 9 years, there is not even a shock plan to avoid the consequences of a new DANA," Martínez reproached, demanding that the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic ...