スペインの大卒は、農業や畜産業への就職のために、農村を目指す
Los licenciados se van al campo
La crisis económica y el deseo de una vida distinta atraen hacia la agricultura y la ganadería a jóvenes profesionales muy cualificados
Miguel Ángel García Vega Madrid 14 OCT 2012 - 01:08 CET
Graduates leave the field
The economic crisis and the desire to attract a different life to agriculture and livestock to highly qualified young professionals
Miguel Ángel García Vega Madrid 14 OCT 2012 - 01:08 CET
The land has become the livelihood of many Spanish graduates. After years in which many young people were farming and livestock with disinterest, extreme austerity policy that is subject to Spain, and its devastating consequences, has led to an increasing number of young people with higher education resort to field as output professional, in a move that had never before in our country. Neither in this way and, since then, with this intensity.
The numbers Asaja handles (Agrarian Association of Young Farmers), and citing its president, Peter Cheap, show that in the last five years 2,500 young people have joined the field in Castilla y León while in Castilla-La Mancha, between 2000 and 2010 were 8764. Thrive agricultural vocations, in part due to the collapse of the brick, in part to the need. But there are more reasons. "People want to work in an activity based on the real economy, and also live in the country is somewhat cheaper than in a city," muses Peter Cheap. "Although what I really want is a different life." Therefore, the expert believes that "new air coming in agriculture."
In five years, more than 2,500 young people have gone to Castile and Leon
These winds also come from the European Union, where the average rate of incorporation of the agricultural population is 6.4% compared to 4% Spanish. So this return movement, who also lives Portugal still has room to grow in Spain, showing that the sector is undergoing structural change full. So much so that emerging and some evidence of this transformation. "The surface Huelva strawberry in this campaign has increased as a result of graduates who have returned to the field," said Eduardo Lopez, head of labor relations for the Coordination of Organizations of Farmers and Ranchers (COAG).
A manager to producer
Juan Luis Gonzalez has internalized the new field values. A hint of a heart attack just 41 years showed that maybe I was choosing the wrong path. When his heart told him he was CEO of the firm Goodyear Dunlop tire, and he expected the path of those who allow more than ten hours a day in an office. "But it's over. After the big scare, I thought, 'I have to do something different, I have to reinvent myself. " And he did it in the field. Specifically, in Palma del Río (Córdoba) and between orange (200 hectares). For a year produces three million kilos of oranges on the land, which sells mostly using the Internet, and thus provides continuity-through-Orange3 your business to the fourth generation of farmers in his family. And mind, with enthusiasm, that the heart goes phenomenon.
And while some clichés are falling. If the traditional canon tells of a Spanish farmer generally male, aged (according to INE, there are 167,000 farmers who have more than 49 years) and little identified with information technology or new farming techniques, cases such as Miguel Minguet, Juan Luis González, María del Mar Belate Look Ferral or move it gradually, other farmers seeking their place in our fields.
Even now there who has given a name to this movement: "new peasants". So narrates Gustavo Duch, coordinator of the journal Food Sovereignty also sketches a portrait of these new farmers. "These people returning to the field believe in small farms and sustainable basis which are organic crops. Also do not want to use European agricultural subsidies or rely on large stores to sell their products, looking for contact and Internet distribution. "
Minguet Miguel is a young (37 years) engineer trained in England has been found in rice your professional space. 16 different varieties grown in the national park of the Albufera (Valencia), and "in his past life" had been technology consultant, in fact, came to work for the Ford Motor Company. But in 2008 he had to make a decision. Or was reincorporated to the family farm in this privileged landscape of Valencia, or closed. His father grew older and had to find the replacement. Four years later collects a million and a half kilos of rice under the umbrella of gourmet Sivaris. "There are many young people who are returning to the field, but there is another that simply has not gone away," says Minguet.
This move comes at 6% of the agricultural population in the European Union
This sense of belonging or attachment to a geographical area, but also cultural, Belate Look inhabits. A 32-year-old Pamplona since 2009 has Ilarregui (Navarra) a holding of 40 hectares with 75 dairy cows. In these green and steep lands annually produces 340,000 liters of milk, which sells full to Danone. For her, "work is life, and livestock is happy life" sums energetic. Back has left four years as an attorney now, with time, seem a dark cloud in memory. It was not easy. "I touched the stage, 'This girl is crazy', but for me the livestock was not only a response to the crisis, but especially vocation" he says. "It was a way to dispose of the land and labor of years in the field of my mother."
In the background is a way to regain understanding agriculture and remember, as indicated by Gertjan van der Geer, investment fund manager Pictet Agriculture, "that good practices raise the quality of farmland, reduce the use of capital goods agricultural and reduce costs. "
But perhaps one of the most interesting lessons that leave this new approach is that not only responds to economic conditions, but "is accompanied by a political ideology and social thinking that defends the country life and the values that are associated with him and which, incidentally, do we all need, "says Gustavo Duch.
A vital change that increasingly more people crave. In fact, Maria del Mar Ferral walks these days among olive trees. It has 40 acres of them-of Arbequina rush-that this October the intense sun of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz). It is a property that belongs to the family, and soon begin to produce, along with his brother Luis, oil under its own brand: Ferral. Diploma in Industrial Relations, recalls in his 37 years, there was a time to send resumes and thinking that I might have to go abroad. "But I decided to take up the family business here instead of looking for other options." And feel that fits well. "In the field do all functions, although I get the tractor" statement with a knowing smile.
It was understood that now, when the crisis is more virulent, there are those who still remember something that we hear these days of harvest in Castile and Leon: "If the home of a man is his children, the earth is memory." To her back.
スペインの大卒は、農業や畜産業への就職のために、農村を目指す
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