Asaja Malaga warns that Antequera railway ring will destroy more than 1,100 hectares and about 50,000 annual wages

The next construction of the rail ring of proofs for technology and trains of high speed in Antequera, complementary to the Centre of Rail Technologies, will situate to Málaga like European referent in technology for the high speed and will generate thousands of places of work. However, the another expensive of this project is the possible loss of more than 50.000 jornales annual in the field and that the Vega of Antequera can remain done añicos. More than 1.100 hectares of fertile and productive earth will disappear and other so many will have to convert, in the best of the cases, in portions of secano. Like this it auguran from Asaja Málaga, once put to the common by the media that the project gestó does almost a year, whereas ones of the main sectors affected, the agriculturalists, knew the  set up of the same does hardly a month. Since, Asaja Málaga has kept conversations with distinct representatives to confirm the existence of the project and request that, at least, said project carry out with the lower agricultural impact possible. “It is logical that the projects of general interest prevail on a concrete sector. And, once again, the agriculturalists will pay the consequences of the set up of this project. What it is necessary to see is if truly it will be so beneficial for our province as it says. It speaks that they will create thousands of places for the execution and set up of the rail ring, but, what will happen afterwards? They will go the places of work and will remain us only with the roads? The olive, instead, it is necessary to collect it every year”, questions Carlos Blázquez, general secretary of Asaja Málaga.

Asaja Málaga began to collect signatures at all more know the news the one of the installation of the distinct rail rings in the vega antequerana so that the authorities involved in the project have the agriculturalists so that said rail axles cause the lower possible damage.

Cientos Of hectares of olive grove, of regadío extensivo, late potato of irrigation, horticultural products and vineyards, as well as some hectares of secano will disappear and where before found part of the pantry of Málaga now will run trains. Likewise, from Asaja Málaga insist in that to these direct damages have to him add the indirect conditions: plots split, difficulty of accesses, affectations to systems of irrigation that can arrive even to convert plots originariamente of irrigation in secano, inviabilidad economic of the fincas resultant, etc.

As it has been able to know Asaja Málaga, the ring that projects has a route closely of 70 kilometres and covers a surface of some 20.000 hectares. The majority of this surface shut in the ring is of regadío, by what the damage is still greater that if it treated of earth of secano because the installations of irrigation, very costly of by yes, would remain damaged in his group. Besides, the crops of regadíos, as it knows, are those that more hand of work generate and now the jornales will remain clearly mermados. To these direct and indirect damages it is necessary to add another big problem for the agriculturalists whose plots situate near of the roads: the plagues of rabbits that devour complete plots of crop. The taludes of the roads of BIRD and autovías turn into shelter of these rodents that arrive to be a lacra, causing cuantiosos damages in the fincas near, a problem more than ascertained in any part of the national geography in which they concentrate this type of infrastructures. Strike resaltar besides the impact paisajístico that the project will have on the Vega.

Asaja Málaga no opondría to a project that generate prosperity to the province, but asks the following questions: it has not posed a less fertile place for his installation? What will happen with the agriculturalists that no longer can cultivate and that doing an economic effort ingente for following the guidelines of the European Union invested in modernisation to be competitive? By all the damages that this project will involve to the producers after a supposed progress, Asaja Málaga requests that it take into account the criterion of qualified technicians so that the stroke of the distinct rail rings damage the less possible the vega of Antequera from the agricultural point of view.