Ourique: Runs until tomorrow Fair Pork Alentejo.
It began yesterday in Ourique, the XII Edition of the Alentejo Pig Fair. The event runs until tomorrow and is invited to celebrate the rurality, the municipality of Almeirim, the Santarém district.
Until Sunday, 25 March, Ourique welcomes the best of what it produces and the Alentejo, an event that highlights the row affirmation of Alentejo Pig and the excellence of the productive capacity of the rural world.
The XII edition of the Pig Alentejo Fair (photo Ovibeja file in Ourique Pavilion), which features new to the Alentejo pig Route (visits to farms) or Alentejo Pig Space (exhibition space of animals in various states of creation), You will have as guest city to celebrate rurality, the municipality of Almeirim, the Santarém district.
Marcelo Guerreiro argues that “It is the highlight of a sow's claim for strategy, Ourique and the City”, justifying that “It is an exhibition that shows the excellence of pork products Alentejo and a vital sector vitality to the local economy”, finished.
The fair, which is already a regional and national reference Rural World assertion panorama, He told yesterday with the visit of a delegation of Members of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture and the Sea of ​​Parliament and The Secretary of State for Forestry and Rural Development, Miguel Freitas, by 18 hours, a visit to certainly space that annually mobilizes thousands of people.
For three days, the best of Alentejo, the identity marks the result of the productive capacity of the various ranks of the rural world, will be displayed in a food of shows, regional products and musical entertainment (Carolina Deslandes-23, Miguel Gameiro-24, Antonio Monda and 25 Salesman).
The Municipality of Ourique and ACPA are ready to welcome everyone with open arms Ourique Capital Pig Alentejo. Free entries.
MARCELO WARRIOR advocates support for specific agro-silvopasture rainfed
The Mayor of Ourique, Marcelo Guerreiro, He defended at the end of technical workshop on drought and agriculture, forestry and pastoral dryland systems, a need to have specific support for this type of ecosystems, in order to prevent the abandonment of fields. Before a full audience of creators and producers, with the Secretary General of the presence of CAP, the Presidents of the Municipal Council of Castro Verde and Mértola, District Director of Beja Social Security and the heads of the cymbal and Resialentejo, the mayor called for a close look of all powers, at a time when there are convergences of wills between the Local Government and the Central Power, as evidenced by the Alqueva water connection project of the Purple Dam to Dam Monte da Rocha.
“The big question, the central issue is that we have the ability to create conditions to improve the production and current creative capacities and to anticipate the likely reality of the future. And it's why we count on your availability ever, with the will of the municipality and with the convergence of government will.
This is the meaning of the investments announced to expand the scope of use of the Alqueva Water, with the coveted link Purple Dam to Dam Monte da Rocha.
This is the meaning of the investments we have made and we will continue to make the Alentejo Waters. But we well the notion that we need to go further, especially as regards mounted to upland crops and. We need a couple of bets on irrigation, there are support measures and targeted funding for the upland on the horizon of the post-2020 CAP.
The Alentejo and our Alentejo are mostly rain-fed and strong focus on extensive livestock. We do not have the strength or, or the generation of wealth of large holdings of irrigated”.
