2023-04-28 23:41:56
In Melide, A Coruña, students from various countries receive theoretical education and, above all, excellent practice on livestock. They want to train in the sector and Galicia is a benchmark at a European level.
Ryan and Eddy are two of the students who change their classrooms in France these weeks for internships on a Galician farm. Suso, its owner, teaches them how to work. They are studying a livestock cycle in their country and have come to Galicia thanks to the Erasmus plus program.
“It is being a very good experience and we are discovering many new things”, explained Ryan Queruel, while Eddy Barbaux assured that the sector “is very different from France”: “the prices are not the same and there are bigger tractors”, he asserted.
The Galician livestock sector is a benchmark at a European level. Jose Gil, teacher at the rural training center EFA Fronteboa, He has assured that it is a “privileged” environment: “There is water and there is an appropriate temperature for the production of fodder and milk.”
Lucía Casal, a livestock student, also had this same experience on a farm in Ireland: “Differentiating cultures, you see what’s more beyond your countryopen mind, which is what we need today in livestock farming”.
Only 11% of livestock farm owners in Europe are under 40 years of age. For this reason, programs like this one help to foster generational change. Attracting young people to the countryside is one of the pillars of the new Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union in the next 5 years.
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