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The CEIP Ramón y Cajal, from Águilas (Murcia), has welcomed this morning the inauguration of its new school garden.

The construction of this infrastructure responds to the agreement signed between the Department of Environment of the City of Águilas and Looije.

According to this agreement, the company specialized in the production of cherry tomatoes committed, in a period of four academic years, to the start-up of four greenhouses in many other schools in the municipality.

The first one is located at the CEIP Las Lomas, since its opening in October 2018.

This morning's act was attended by the mayor of Águilas, Mari Carmen Moreno;

the Councilor for the Environment of the City of Águilas, Ginés Desiderio Navarro;

the new general director of Looije Águilas, Jacqueline Looije;

the general director of the Looije Producers Organization, Juan José López;

the director of CEIP Ramón y Cajal, Diego López;

Isabel María Torrente, mayor of the Environment at the time of the implementation of the project;

and different members of the Municipal Corporation, such as Eva Reverte and José García.

"Bring agriculture to children"

The objective of this action, in the words of Juan José López, "is to bring agriculture to children and break with that image that it is a straw hat and a stick. Agriculture, today, is technology."

Similarly, the general director of OP Looije commented that "working in the field is no punishment, but it can be very rewarding."

In the same vein, the mayor of Águilas, who described as "a success" the response that the school gardens are obtaining and said that agriculture "is a fundamental economic sector for the municipality and a livelihood for the aquilines" .

Finally, Diego López, the highest representative of the educational center, took advantage of his intervention before the media to show his gratitude to Looije and the City of Águilas for collaborating with "one of the most needy schools", in addition to highlighting the important pedagogical role of these greenhouses.

"It is an activity that motivates children a lot and in which, at the curricular level, many other subjects can be worked on, such as language or mathematics," he concluded.

It should be noted, ultimately, that the opening of the second school garden is not the only action Looije is carrying out in the field of Education.

Not surprisingly, this week, a representative of the agricultural company went to the CEIP Mediterráneo (in Águilas), to share with the children a didactic talk about the production process of the Sarita Tomato, from planting to marketing to different countries of Europe.

Source: Agencias