Agroaldea
THE FIRST AND SECOND PLACE IS Occupied by ALMERÍA AND MURCIA ACCORDING TO DATA FROM THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2014.
The campaign is far behind 1997/98 in which the Canary Islands stood out in the export of tomatoes produced in Spain, far exceeding more than half of the country's total exports.
The causes accumulated one after another like an astral conjunction destined to make the activity disappear.: pests, competitors, costs, investments... The situation was so serious that a Strategic Plan was approved in order to alleviate the devastating effects that had drastically reduced the surface, production and producers.
However, and despite the efforts of the sector, The Plan has not finished bearing fruit since the situation, far from changing, has the sector on the verge of collapse and the definitive cessation of activity.
Exportation is the destination of Canarian fruit. And in this sense, the distance that separates the Archipelago from the peninsula instead of getting shorter, keeps growing. The transport compensation that would equalize Canarian producers with peninsular producers continues to decrease, as well as there are fewer Canarian farmers to compensate.
Many question whether in this case, the astral conjunction “maleficent” It has become a black hand that deliberately weighs down and harms Canarian producers.. Otherwise there is no possible explanation for the treatment they are receiving from the administration of the State and the Canary Islands..
Transport compensation has been cut by up to 45,76% regarding the 70% what it should be. But it is that, In addition, production companies have gone from 45 to the 26 current and exported tons of 200.000 at almost 90.000 of this campaign.
Not only is it unfair treatment. The thing is that the right endorsed in the article is of no use. 138 of the Spanish Constitution the compensation of the condition of insularity, or that of the article 349 of the Treaty of Lisbon that governs the designs of the EU and qualifies the Archipelago as an Ultra Peripheral Region.
[quote]The frustration and desperation of the Canary Islands tomato sector is logical. One might think that those responsible for tremendous nonsense and injustice, They don't care about the activity.[/quote]
But let the almost ones pass through the triumphal arch 20.000 jobs that depend today on the sector, Not only is it tremendously irresponsible., but rather it points to the hidden intention of ending the sector by bleeding it very slowly..
The data supports the thesis. From January 1st to 31 March of 2014 Spain exported a total of 416,08 million kilos of tomato, of those who 253,47 million kilos (60,92 %) They left the province of Almería.
Murcia, with the 12,23 % It is the second exporting province of this vegetable, Canary Islands occupying third place, with the 7,32 % of the total tomato exported by Spain; the province of Las Palmas with a 6,52 % and 27,1 million kilos and that of Santa Cruz de Tenerife with 3,3 million kilos and a 0,80% of the total.
The figures come from the Department of Customs and Excise Taxes of the Ministry of Economy of the Government of Spain. If they had a premonition department, They surely advanced the Canarian tomato catastrophe.
And they wouldn't have to practice much hyaloscopy* on the ball, just look at the administration itself.
*Hialoscopia: definition that the action for crystal ball divination receives in parapsychology research.