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Emotion, admiration and respect, joined last Saturday in the Castillo de Jumilla, to recognize the figure of Francisco Pacheco, as Farmer of the Year 2014, a recognition that the Federation of Peñas delivers the Harvest Festival and Institute Jumilla Wine Culture, ICV, the path to reward those who gave their lives to the country, in the noble profession of agriculture.
The event was attended, among others, the mayor of Jumilla, Enrique Jimenez, Councillor for Agriculture, Francisco Martínez Escandell, the presidents of the Federation of Peñas and ICV, Francisco Javier Vazquez and Emiliano Hernández, members of the municipal corporation and the president of the Murcia Winemakers Association, among other authorities.
Accompanied by the sound of the guitar Young Jumillano Jesus Jimenez, the ceremony began with the words of Francisco Javier Vazquez, who stressed in his speech the importance of the figure of the farmer in our area "are the parents of the land, caring and treated with love and dedication for giving the best of themselves. "
About Francisco Pacheco, said that "his behavior left a worthy course for their daughters to emulate, an example of work, effort, perseverance, struggle and especially of person."
ICV President for his part, stressed in his words, the many circumstances that make Paco Pacheco, "with a capital worthy of this recognition," and stated that "this act we show the importance it has had and has to Jumilla our land, and with it, the person who exercises the farmer. "
The mayor of Jumilla, Enrique Jimenez, was in charge of closing the round of speeches, extolling the prominent role played by the agriculture and for society jumillana, "people who make love for the land, their way of life, and without hardly realizing it, become their trade in the pride of Jumilla, because if something should be proud, is our identity, and that identity gives us our wine, which begins on earth, who day by day, work and care for agricultures and Jumilla, with much sacrifice, but a great reward, build, maintain and preserve our culture as wine city ".
One of the most emotional moments of the night, delivering lived with memories, Francisco Pacheco's own first his wife, then the grandchildren of the honoree, which also rewarded with a alborgas his grandfather, and finally with the award ceremony as Farmer of the Year, Francisco Pacheco thanked with emotion, dedicating it to his family, "the reason for so much effort."
Elena Pacheco, manager of Bodegas Pacheco today in its new phase "Viña Elena", and on behalf of her sisters wanted to honor the figure of his father, praising the effort and dedication that always showed for the land and his family, "as a strain of Monastrell who knew fetch water under rocks to get ahead, and give of the best wine."
A new edition of the Farmer of the Year, a recognition that comes to value, one of the wildest parts of Jumillano society, men and women farmers, in an emotional ceremony, thus shut from now with a new name adds to the history of Jumilla, that of Francisco Pacheco Molina.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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