Canary care the 85% the food you eat.

According to the Minister of Agriculture, Juan Ramon Hernandez, This data means that there has been progress in food sovereignty, and compared this figure with the Hawaiian archipelago, where imports reach 95 percent.

This was one of the figures that Hernández presented to defend his management, during an interpellation in the plenary session of Parliament in which the PP deputy Ana María Guerra, stated that the counselor's passivity and apathy has resulted in “a lost legislature for the countryside and for fishing”.

For the PP deputy, the problem is not the money, given that the PP Government has negotiated 1.300 millions of euros in European aid for the Canarian countryside until 2020, but management.

In this respect, stated that in 2013 they stopped spending on counseling 20 million euros in investments on a budget for that year that had already been reduced by 25 million compared to the initial budget approved in Parliament.

“Having such a serious crisis in the Canarian countryside, budget 107 million, they reduce it to 82 and finally they only spend 62”, denounced the PP deputy.

Juan Ramón Hernández answered that his department executed 2013 the 93% of your budget, but there was a decrease in 18 million euros corresponding to the state cut in the hydraulic works agreement.

He defended that the primary sector has grown in the Canary Islands, both in economic terms and in employment, and assured that the support of the Government of the Canary Islands has been demonstrated.

In 2012, The agricultural GDP grew in the Canary Islands by 7,3 percent, above the Spanish average, and in the first quarter of 2014 The number of employees was 28.980 people. He pointed out that in this legislature agriculture and livestock have received 810 million euros in aid from Posei and the regional government has managed 70.000 application files for production and marketing aid.