IT EMERGES AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO REACTIVATE AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY AND AVOID THE ABANDONMENT OF LAND.

The initiative came from the Villa de Mazo City Council and, in its first six months, has achieved the participation of 62 people putting the owners of disused farms in contact with people interested in working on them.

With this project you achieve, on the one hand, stop the abandonment of arable plots and, for another, achieve a reactivation of the local agricultural economy, manifest from the local development agency.

Of the 62 people involved in the project, 13 they are owners, 13 people looking for land, 19 have received training in agricultural exploitation and 17 Owners are being advised to get optimal performance from their plots.

One of the most interesting initiatives developed within the Agricultural Land Bank, It is the organic family garden that is currently cultivated and preserved by the students of the Colegio de La Rosa as a school garden..

The participants, in addition to taking care of the cultivation tasks (conditioning, sowing, irrigation or fertilizer, among others), They designed the garden and planned the crops, They acquired knowledge about compost and biofertilizer manufacturing and pest and disease control..

The management and information of the Agricultural Land Bank is carried out through the municipal website (www.villademazo.es). in it, The user can know the plots that have been registered in the project and has the possibility of registering in the Agricultural Employment Exchange.

This is a project by Ader-La Palma in collaboration with the municipalities of the Island, being able to consult offers and demands in the agricultural sector, as well as propose their services through a simple procedure and in accordance with current regulations..

The Agricultural Land Bank was born with the intention of becoming the fundamental tool for the reactivation of the local agricultural economy, assuming added value to the environment and tourism.