Recently, The world has become aware of the urgency of an ecological rebirth and the need for a fundamental change in our dominant socio -economic model. We realize that in just a few decades we have led from natural evolution by time and nature itself.
Amidst Desert formation, loss of biodiversity and the increase in catastrophic climate phenomenaPeople have to empathize with the ground, plants, fauna and natural resources such as light and water. The interconnection between cattle and biodiversity plays a fundamental role in this new perspective, both in Secretly Like in the rest of Spain.
Use of Native varieties is an essential tool for strengthening the sustainable agricultural modelIncredibly that the combination of local breed, adequate territory and breeders is aware of the most durable formula, so that, within the same ecosystem people, plants and animals exist next to sufficient balance.
Cantabria: Cattle increase indigenous varieties
He Official Gazette of Cantabria (BOC) publishes the resolution of the Ministry of Rural Development, Livestock, Fisheries and Food with which help for the preservation and promotion of indigenous varieties of sheep channel cattle Cantabria.
They can benefit from this help, endowed with a total amount of 45,000 euros, All those natural or legal persons, including cooperative societies and agricultural transformation failsthat they are holders of an ovino or goat construction that are located Cantabria.
In any case, it must be farms that meet the legal regulations issued by the Ministry of Environment, hygiene, good proofs and health health, as well as in identification and registration of animals.
Help is provided by eligible animal, eligible animals the sheep or caps of pure breed suitability or mixed construction registered in the genealogical books From the completion of the application period, provided that the races are included in the official catalog of indigenous promoting axes or in the danger of extinction, with association recognized in Secretly And make an officially recognized improvement program.
The Ministry will mainly assess this for providing assistance Interested parties are holders of mountain farms; That they are young; These belong to areas with natural limitations which will set up the Rural Development Program (PDR) 2014-2020, and that more than 50% of the application is integrated by specimens of native varieties in danger of extinction.
Interested in young people in the countryside
Those interested They have a period of a month from the day after the publication of the extract of the call in the BOC to submit their requests in the register of the Ministry or in another permitted by the current regulations.
The purpose of this help is Promotes a producing sector, such as sheep and goats, in frank regression because of its small size and distributionAs well as his poor profitability.
It is one Extensive management system that suffers from nature attacks and with a design of direct payments in PAC -AIDS That does not respond to the peculiarities of these farms, many of them mixed or with a small census and a little commercial activity.
Considered an ideal addition to guarantee Rational use of common meadows, extensive grazing of sheep and goats is of great importance for CantabriaDue to the enormous expansion of the public nuts mountains that we have and for domination in the area of the bush type grass in most of these areas.
In addition, Very particularly contributes to the cleaning of the mountains and the prevention of forest fires. That is why the importance of promoting the preservation of genetic resources for its importance is for the rural development of Cantabria, As well as the defense and promotion of indigenous varieties and their fundamental role in maintaining the biodiversity of the autonomous community.