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Migration Program Boosts Rural Farming in Spain

10/26/2025

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A government program in Los Cortijos, Spain, has trained about 460 students for agricultural jobs since 2022, mainly migrants.
Sudanese asylum-seeker Osam Abdulmumen now works as a shepherd or in related fields and earns about 1,300 euros per month to support his family in Sudan.
Álvaro Esteban, a local farmer, says migrants sustain livestock farms because few young Spaniards take rural jobs, and the region faces depopulation that threatens agriculture.

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Story summary

A government program in Los Cortijos, Spain, has trained about 460 students for agricultural jobs since 2022, mainly migrants.
Sudanese asylum-seeker Osam Abdulmumen now works as a shepherd or in related fields and earns about 1,300 euros per month to support his family in Sudan.
Álvaro Esteban, a local farmer, says migrants sustain livestock farms because few young Spaniards take rural jobs, and the region faces depopulation that threatens agriculture.