Jacobo Medina is committed to launching a plan to recover La Geria and mitigate the damage that the lack of regulations defining the uses in this protected landscape and agricultural area is causing to the wine sector, after more than a decade waiting for the Special Plan, according to the PP.
For Medina, "the lack of regulatory coverage that allows, among other things, the regulation and expansion of winery facilities is significantly limiting and harming their activity." A fact that is now added to "the risk of abandonment that weighs on La Geria" due to the "search for alternative cultivation areas" that have "a lower operating cost than traditional cultivation in holes," he says.
Jacobo Medina points out that "on several occasions the PP has asked the government of Dolores Corujo to speed up the processing of the Special Plan," but "there does not seem to be any will to do so." He makes it clear that "the latest response was disconcerting because apparently there is only an intention to address the agricultural use for which a provision of a 2021 regulation would suffice."
The candidate assures that "our priority is to approve the Special Plan and, in parallel, launch a line of aid to compensate for the extra cost of cultivating in La Geria and its low profitability." "On the one hand, we are talking about direct aid for the owners of farms in operation and to encourage the planting of new vines" and, on the other hand, "aid to keep them clean," he explains.
"We are going to do everything necessary to guarantee the maintenance of the landscape and the sector itself"
On the other hand, Medina believes that it is "time to propose that the Cabildo can take charge of the abandoned farms in order to promote the maintenance of the landscape from the point of view of tourist interest." "What is clear is that we are not going to stand idly by while the survival of La Geria is put at risk," he adds. "From the Cabildo we are going to do everything necessary to stop the decline in the number of hectares cultivated and guarantee both the maintenance of the landscape and the sector itself," Medina assures.
For the Populars, the recovery of La Geria also involves "bringing new generations closer to this space, promoting wine and oenological training among young people in order to guarantee this crop in the future," they report.