The Government declared Agama a strategic project twenty months ago

PalmDespite concerns surrounding the future of Agama after the company announced to the farmers who will no longer buy milk from them in 2026Less than two years ago, the Government declared the dairy project a strategic one. On December 1, 2023, the Governing Council decreed the importance of the project then proposed by the company that owns Agama, Damm SA. Regarding dairy production, the proposal, which was expected to receive funding from the European Next Generation funds, included improvement actions "and the consolidation of the product processing plant."

The company wanted to expand production capacity with "the incorporation of a new returnable and non-returnable glass packaging line, a new yogurt production and packaging line, its own wastewater treatment plant, and a self-consumption photovoltaic plant on the roof." According to the report prepared for the declaration as a strategic project by the Government, all of this should represent "a fundamental boost for the local primary sector, specifically the livestock sector."

The project not only included these actions. It also included a new microbrewery plant for the local production of the Rosa Blanca brand, as well as a beer dilution and loading facility.beer drive "to minimize the number of Damm beers shipped from the Peninsula." This plant was to have a wastewater treatment plant and an energy room.

All of this involved developing a new logistics center in Palma, with "the necessary storage and building areas" to house the microbrewery and beer dilution plant. Digitalization systems had to be incorporated for logistics tasks and the self-consumption solar plant added on the roof," as explained in the strategic project declaration. In addition, a space with charging stations for electric vehicles was planned and "the replacement of diesel vehicles with electric ones for the marketing and distribution of 2~B2 beverages. By 2025, there has been no information on the start of construction of these facilities or on the planned renovations to boost the Agama plant and provide it with greater capacity and products, always derived from milk. "BK_SLT_LNA~" However, the Director General of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, Fernando Fernández, explained to ARA Baleares that he requested that the declaration of a strategic industrial project be conditional. "I will present the idea to the Industry," notes Fernández.

At the time the entire project was declared strategic in the industrial sphere, regulations approved by the Pact were used. This formula, which the PP Government has modified, served above all to promote large solar parks on rural land. ~BK_S