Nearly 200 rural women in the Murcia region will meet in the First Day of Rural Women to be held on Wednesday October 26 in the auditorium of the City of San Javier, organized by the departments of Agriculture and Equal San Javier and the Association of Family and Women in Rural Region of Murcia, AFFAMER.
The Councillor for Agriculture and Women, Celia Martinez and AFFAMER president, Carmen Day English presented today to commemorate the International Day of Rural Women was held on October 15, and which aims to "give visibility and integrate social life in the agricultural sector, so important to San Javier, and specifically to women, as a bastion that supports it, "said Celia Martinez.
The Minister of Agriculture and Water in the Region of Murcia, Antonio Cerda, CEO of Irrigation and Local Development, Julio Bernal and the mayor of San Javier, Juan Martinez attend the opening of the seminar to be held at 09:30 am .
in the municipality of San Javier.
The first presentation will take place at 10:00 h.
under the title "Rural Women: Turn your dreams into initiatives" by Juana Aznar, PhD in Economics from the University of Valencia and a Masters in Gender Equality in the public and private sectors.
The morning is filled with a round table, which shall consist of a farmer, a cattle, a fisherwoman and Women's technical area of ​​COAG and the association of rural women in Murcia "Water and Earth", followed by company visits Seedlings local and El Mirador, La Vega del Mar Conservera Minor and Hortamira.
Councillor for Agriculture and Equality, explained that this conference "aims to show our rural and agricultural sector to other participants and learn while their testimonies and experiences, making this and integrating the agricultural sector in all society ".
English recalled that AFFAMER Carmen has 20 years working in the Region of Murcia which has 500 women members.
Equal opportunities in rural areas for women, training, promotion in the field of new technologies, reconciling work and family life, gender or violence "in a more closed as the rural" are some of the work objectives of the Association, explained the president.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier