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New farmers' co-op: 500-sq.-m space, ready by June

tragsa cooperativa2Councillor of infrastructure, agriculture, livestock and fishing, Santi Juan, met this morning with Ángel Campuzano, head of the Balearic Islands division of Tragsa, to sign the order of construction for the future Farmers' Cooperative industrial space. With this final step complete, work on the new space can begin next week.

Councillor Juan explaned: “The industrial space for the Farmers' Cooperative is an essential element to the Council's rural improvement and renewal programme, a project which has also had the benefit of the cooperative's close colaboration. The unlaboured land use programme [known in Catalan as arrendament de terres – TN], is another measure included in this same programme.”

The new building has a cost of €614,000, of which, -Juan related- a third would come thanks to the work of the local action group for rural development in Eivissa and Formentera in the form of assistance from the UE Leader project.

Ángel Campuzano gave thanks to the Formentera Council “for confiding the project with Tragsa and allowing us to take part in the countryside renewal project” and confirmed, “construction will begin this next week.”

Also at the meeting was Miguel Muñoz, director of Tragsa Eivissa-Formentera and coordinator of the building project. Muñoz explained, “the finished space will have dimensions of 16 x 35 metres (roughly 500 sq. m.)) and – like traditional warehouse buildings – will be free of walls and columns”. Muñoz also informed that the the work would include electric and plumbing fittings.

For inquiries, Santiago Juan, councillor of agriculture, 667680252.