This new investment will convert hectares of vines that will add to the 1,000 already under these plans in the areas of wine with DO Bullas, Jumilla and Yecla
The executive secretary of Agriculture, Water and Environment regional PP, Jesus Cano, announced today that the wine sector in the Region of Murcia will receive a total of 4.3 million euros to "restructure and retrain new hectares of vineyards that added to the 1,000 already under these plans in the areas of wines with Designation of Origin Bullas, Jumilla and Yecla. "
Cano was speaking after a meeting with the Board of the Designation of Origin Bullas Wine, meeting which has been accompanied by the mayor of the municipality and the local PP president, Pedro Chico and the Deputy Secretary General Sector, Regional Studies and Programs PP, Inmaculada González.
The 'popular' leader explained that the aid, the grant of which was adopted on the last sector conference on Agriculture and Rural Development, are intended to "increase the competitiveness of the wine industry," noting that "in the case of the Region of Murcia have allowed reconvert vineyard plantations as Monastrell varieties, and to a lesser extent other as syrah, merlot, cabernet sauvignon, tempranillo and grenache. "
Also stressed that although Cano decreases the European budget, the Region of Murcia "maintains its level of support for rural development in the agreement on the sharing of the CAP between regions, with 219 million euros of EAFRD funds," a program which will be funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, 39 million euros, and by the Autonomous Community, which will provide 90 million euros in the next period 2015-2020. "
In this regard, the Executive Secretary of Agriculture has announced that Murcia will participate, along with other regions and the Ministry of Agriculture in the development of a software application for the management of direct payments under the CAP.
which will begin to be used from 2015.
"This program will enable greater transparency in the processing and management of aid, as well as simplification and cost reduction in the process, and will establish a single management system for all communities involved in this project," he said Cano.
NATIONAL CONGRESS FOR THE XX ANNIVERSARY DO BULLAS
For his part, Deputy Secretary General Sectoral, Regional Studies and Programs PP, Inmaculada González, announced during the course of this meeting that "in the near future a National Congress will be held for the 20th anniversary of the DO Bullas, an act to be attended by all Regulatory Boards Wine Spain ".
The Denomination of Origin of Bullas, which began in 1994 with the winery of Our Lady of the Rosary and today has 12 bottling facilities and 600 winegrowers seconded, occupies an area of ​​2,200 hectares of vines in nine municipalities Region: Bullas, Calasparra, Caravaca de la Cruz, Cehegín, Lorca, Moratalla, Mula, Pliego and Ricote.
The marketing around one million liters of wine.
The main market is national, while the exterior is mainly focused to the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, UK, Sweden, Russia and Japan, which covers around 35 percent of the average production of the last three.
Source: PP Región de Murcia