The Lleida City Council will activate this week the attention device for the 2026 agricultural campaign with the opening, this Wednesday, of the first reception space in pavilion three of Fira de Lleida. The center will have 100 places and will offer stays of up to seven days while municipal services refer the people attended to other resources.
The campaign begins with already known tension in the Lleida plain. The municipal device attended nearly a thousand people last year and about 400 did not have papers, a figure that the Paeria hopes to reduce this year despite the initial resource maintaining a limited and temporary capacity.
Pavilion three will open with 100 places and seven-day stays
The device is part of the annual reception system that is deployed in the Lleida plain to manage the arrival of temporary workers linked to the sweet fruit harvest. The function of the Fira de Lleida facility is to provide first attention and organize referrals to other available accommodations or services during the campaign.
Since May, the municipality has also had the Seròs hostel, to which the service has referred 12 people. This resource was enabled to cover accommodation needs linked to the fruit campaign and acts as one of the outlets for people passing through the municipal pavilion.
The Paeria wants to reduce last year's figures
Carlos Enjuanes, deputy mayor and councilor for Social Action and Innovation, explained that the Paeria is confident that the number of people attended without administrative documentation will decrease significantly during this campaign. The municipal objective comes after an edition in which the volume of attention returned to high levels.
Last year's balance sheet left nearly a thousand people attended in the municipal device. Of that total, about 400 lacked papers, a fact that conditioned the management of reception and referral to available resources in Lleida and its surroundings during the sweet fruit harvest.
The first reception center that will open this Wednesday at Fira de Lleida will allow maximum stays of seven days, and the service has already referred 12 people to the Seròs hostel, operational since last May.