This Thursday, January 13, we held the assessment and evaluation meeting of the third grain cleaning campaign, where the entire project "Innovation for the development of new management processes and new practices for cleaning grain of local and organic varieties" was also assessed. Representatives of the Local Varieties Association, Camp Mallorquí Fruits and some of the farmers who use the grain cleaning service attended. Therefore, the experimentation carried out over three years in order to obtain a selected grain of higher quality for transformation into flour or for re-sowing, arising from a historical demand from the agricultural sector to create a center for cleaning organic grain and local varieties, ends. But Sa Porgadora does not stop there, and yesterday it was possible to discuss its continuity and the different proposals for improvement and the future, in order to continue offering this service to all farmers who need it, and in order to improve it more and more.
This last porgat campaign ended with a total of 232 tons of porgat grain. Although it has fallen short of the objective to be achieved, this value represents a great evolution compared to previous years, assuming about 15 times more the volume sold before the start of the pilot project, and the maximum sold of these three years of project. In addition, more and more organic grain has been planted, and the three most planted varieties are local varieties: Xeixa wheat, Majorcan barley and Majorcan favo.
This project has been financed through aid for pilot projects and support for the development of new products, practices, processes and technologies for the years 2016-2020, by the Agricultural and Fisheries Guarantee Fund of the Balearic Islands (FOGAIBA).
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January 14, 2021
