MÁS wants an agricultural park to transform the rural area of Palma.

PalmMÁS por Palma presented a proposal for an agricultural park this Monday, with the aim of converting Palma's rural areas into a benchmark for agriculture. This aims to recover and increase the city's agricultural activity, protect agricultural areas, and ensure that their production benefits citizens and contributes to food sovereignty.

"We want a Palma that provides solutions to real problems, with local food and productive fields," stated Neus Truyol. "Rural land is not destined for urbanization or for legalizing villas, as the PP and speculators want. Rural land has a social and environmental function. That's why we must provide it with a project," said the councilor.

A plan for the agricultural park

"Currently, rural land is under severe urban development pressure, and its crops are being abandoned due to the hardships of the farmers. MÁS has a plan to address this situation," he said. The party proposes the approval of a work plan to boost the agricultural park, based on four key policy actions.

First, the creation of a governing body with the participation of the City Council, farmers, cooperatives, environmental organizations, and agricultural research and innovation centers. A space where farmers lead and decide, and the City Council supports and facilitates.

Second, the establishment of a public and private land bank that facilitates young farmers' access to land, especially agroecological projects. This involves turning the current abandonment of the countryside into an opportunity.

Third, the opening of an agroecology school to train new workers in the primary sector, including practical courses in organic farming, cooperative management, and marketing. The school must make rural life attractive and viable.

Fourth, the approval of urban planning regulations that protect rural land, and therefore the landscape, ensuring that only agricultural activity is carried out and eradicating its residential and recreational uses.

"Abandonment under the People's Party"

According to Truyol, with MÁS in the municipal government, the General Plan defined two areas as agricultural parks (l'Horta Nord and Pla de Sant Jordi). The Detailed Development Plan established regulations to guarantee both agricultural use and the protection of the landscape in these areas. The PP repealed these regulations, which promoted agricultural activity in Palma. "The PP has been in government for two years, during which time they have done nothing. And now they've approved a regulation that only regulates photovoltaic parks in agricultural areas," he remarked. "We had already regulated renewable energy parks, imposing major restrictions on them so as not to lose a single meter of crops or fertile soil. But our regulations went much further, protecting the landscape and the natural ecosystem, essential for addressing climate change. The PP has ruined everything," he denounced.