Each year, agricultural and livestock holdings are abandoned in Galicia, vertiginous, being the majority of cases in areas of interior, inside of which also affected the territory of Terras de Compostela pace.

The disappearance of agricultural holdings is a trend Galicia lives since the mid-1990s. On the Terras de Compostela territory most farms are linked to livestock activities on the farm. This circumstance leads to the abandonment of grazing causing cessation of agricultural activity and this not reorient for the following reasons:

The age of the majority of those who abandon livestock does not permit them to tackle crops requiring a higher physical work: Huerta, greenhouse, flower,....
There is no generational: the descendants develop other activities that neither allow them to attend crops requiring continuous face-to-face care.
Low demand of fodder cultivation to other farmers and is subject to variations depending on the weather and as unpredictable as the latter.
As a result, and except for family needs, supply the possibilities of land is very conditioned by the age of the owners, decoupling of successors, difficulties marketing and, ultimately, profitability.

According to the study "the problems of agriculture in the Euroregion Galicia Portugal: development strategies" conducted by the researchers Antonio Doval Adam and Maria Isabel Fernández fair of the University of Santiago de Compostela, this disappearance of holdings has caused agricultural employment has fallen strongly in Galicia and in the region North Portugal, through the introduction of a system of incentives and aid to promote the abandonment of farms in favour of young farmers, apart of channelling sums of money to promote cofinancing concentrations, the modernization of farms, and because it does not say so, to promote the progressive all those farms which are not profitable or competitive in an extremely aggressive market agricultural abandonment. However, and despite advances in recent years, the primary sector with 10.7% of employment in Galicia and 12.8% in the North Portugal region only contribute to the VAB 6% and 5% respectively. Most of these jobs are small self-employed farmers who receive a very low, not comparable income that is obtained in industry and services. 

In fact, agriculture and livestock, presents yet in both regions, serious problems and defects in its productive apparatus, derived from their inadequate production structures: excessive fragmentation of farms, proliferation of minifundia, notable deficiencies in the training of farmers and ranchers with weak capacity of organization and partnership reduced implementation of cooperative structures, disorganization and individualism in the channels of distribution and marketing, marked dispersion and fragmentation of farms and methods of work and technologies used. To this must be added a little leveraging investments in machinery, due to the small size of farms and the tremendous fragmentation and fragmentation of ownership of land and own farms in both regions.

The consequences of these gaps and bottlenecks are manifested weak physical yields and high level of self-sufficiency in the low competitiveness by the high level of prices.

To correct this situation from the various public administrations both the industry itself is have dump efforts in trying to develop the following three ways:

Of forest holdings, farmland replacing that to date has produced a breakthrough, inter alia, by the chaotic and indefinite forest policy applied in Galicia.
Through the continuation of agricultural holdings for the production of fodder for livestock, which has produced an overproduction of product that have not subsequently can bring to market.
Creating plantations of breadmaking quality wheat of the "country". However, this occurred only the interest for various "singular breads", which has also been overproduction.
Analyzing the situation is interesting to note the increase in consumption of an oilseed flax, variety internationally rich in omega-3 (Alpha-linoleic acid) as a particular nutritional purpose: If that food of animal origin (meat, milk, eggs) have a certain healthy and organoleptic characteristics, the diet of animals should include this variety of flax.
Flax nutritional interest is due to three components:

Omega-3 fatty acids. Constitute the fat oil. It is the most important feature, and then we will see its advantages in more detail.
Lignans (Phytoestrogens). Present in the water soluble fraction and not oil. They have anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer properties and antioxidants (present in amount of 7 g / kg of grain flax).
Mucilágenos. Soluble fibres with different properties such as lowering cholesterol, control blood glucose and prevent constipation by its regulation of intestinal transit effect. (present in amount of 120 g / kg of grain flax).
On the nutrition of this variety of flax and chemical composition emphasizes its omega-3 fatty acid content and balanced proportion between these and the omega-6. In this sense it is conceivable that their use may be a therapeutic diet remedy to reduce plasma cholesterol levels. From the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (USA) reaches a review of the scientific evidence properties on human health which are attributed flax and flaxseed oil ("Linum usitatissimum"). The research was published in the "Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology the" in 2007, and warns that most of the available evidence focused on the action of the abundant oil (a direct precursor to EPA and DHA) alpha-linoleic acid and comparing its effects in fish oil. Flaxseed oil consumption is notes a proportional increase of omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA from Alpha-linoleic acid (natural precursor of these fatty acids), so associating its protective capacity versus cardiosaludables diseases.

On the other hand, in Galicia the Lino has been cultivated since Neolithic times, leveraging mainly in the following way:

stem in textile industry, the oil to make paints, pigments
cooked food grain (contains 30 to 50% from 15 to 25% of proteins and FAT).
It is not therefore a new raw. The world grew a million hectares in the 19th century and disappeared in 1850-1950 by the entry of soybeans.

After analyzing all the foregoing considerations can be predicted that this oilseed flax variety could cultivate morphological Galician territory, most, soil and climatic conditions which would mean an alternative for farmers who are leaving farms due to lack of profitability of them.

Marketing is virtually assured by a local dairy industry (FEIRACO, located in Negreira, within the territory of Terras de Compostela), which currently imports half a million kilos of this seed for use as food for the cows that produce milk UNICLA with modified fatty acid profile. As a cooperative that is social commitment with their environment, and ultimately, for purely economic reasons and proximity, has expressed its commitment to purchase productions to cover their needs. Other companies of animal feed and food industries that are already developing products that incorporate flax seeds are also concerned.