Agriculture to the generational.

Narvay Quintero announces that he will implement measures to help young people access the countryside.

The Minister of agriculture, Livestock, Fishing and water, opens the course of the Agrarian Training schools of the Canary Islands with the commitment to establish policies that make the sector a profitable and competitive activity.

during the act, held at the Tacoronte School, Narvay Quintero, accompanied by the director of the center, Angel Ruiz, pointed out the possibility of opening lines of aid that subsidize the 100% the beginning of activity within the primary sector for the youngest and continuing in subsequent years with a percentage of compensation.

“The Agriculture, livestock and fishing must become a job opportunity for our young people, and we have to help you develop an activity as important as this in the Canary Islands”, said the counselor.

Like this, highlighted the work of these training centers that, together with the Maritime Fishing Training Institutes, They are assigned to the Agriculture area, Livestock, Fishing and water. “Training is one of the pillars for the development of this activity”, Quintero said, “Only from training can we gain quality and begin to benefit from research and development”, insisted.

The counselor encouraged the young people to continue training once they leave school, and to integrate into the workers belonging to the primary sector once they finish their studies. “I hope that in a few years, when I meet you, tell me that you have a job doing what you like the most, the field”, and added that it is unacceptable that a community like the Canary Islands, with one of the youngest populations in Spain, has within the primary sector the oldest workforce.

In this sense, He stated that it is necessary to make this activity more attractive. “We have a very large potential market, Our inhabitants are joined by tourists who visit us, and you are a key piece so that more local products are consumed in the future”.

On the other hand, the director of the center, Angel Ruiz, highlighted the half century that the school has been training farmers and ranchers. “We offer practical training to work in the field because we believe that training is the best way to provide quality to our products and our primary sector.”, he explained.