Vilaflor de Chasna will have the highest productive green forest in Spain. The star project of the southern municipality begins to take shape after the Governing Council authorized in its last meeting the granting of a direct subsidy, for reasons of public interest, for an amount of 578,947 euros.
The project will be developed in the Huerta Grande, a 12,000 square meter farm owned by the City Council, classified as potentially productive rustic land, which has not been cultivated for five years. The new urban green space will function as a carbon sink and will contribute to reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
The City Council of Vilaflor de Chasna has already got down to work and hopes to begin preparing the land -in the vicinity of the historic center of the municipality- in June to begin, then, with the plantations. The intention of the current municipal government group is for the entire farm to be planted before the end of the year.
“Starting a project of this caliber is very positive for the municipality, because we also want to link it to employment and training oriented to different forms of agriculture,” Chasnera mayor Agustina Beltrán told this newspaper, describing the initiative as ” economic engine” for a municipality with a population of less than 2,000 inhabitants. The councilor compared the project with the productive forest of Adeje, a pioneer in the Canary Islands, although she recalled that the altitude of Vilaflor de Chasna will condition the species of fruit trees that are planted.
The new space, in addition to contributing to the improvement of the rural landscape and the sustainability of the territory, will promote good practices in ecological agriculture, will contribute to rescuing agricultural traditions, will favor the employment of unemployed people in the municipality, will promote the agricultural sector and It will revalue the cultural heritage, by improving a very visited environment of the municipality.
Agustina Beltrán recalled that the embryo of the great ecological commitment of the municipality was the project that the City Council presented to the Employment Plan of the Cabildo. The staff that will work in the Huerta Grande will receive a two-month training and will start working in the month of July.
