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The manifestation, convened by the Platform for Fair Price, He toured the main streets of the capital palm Asprocan harsh criticism and public managers.
The clappers plataneros, to an 'untenable' situation, They did hear their claims through the main streets of the capital of La Palma armed with placards that they could read their demands and hartazgo.
The spokesman of the Platform for Fair Price, Luis Galo, He declared that "can not be those who market the sitting banana, without seeking new markets, without expanding the possibilities and auctioning our fruit. You should go and offer it and if you do not want to chop and leave here and they will pay. It is better to sell 90 cents and have less processed kilos that as we are now, pecking by 30 cents and voting them ".
"What we seek is that the farmer has a pay enough to keep the banana, is enshrined in article 404 the regulation and now the farmer is losing a lot of money so you can not maintain quality in the banana and get a banana that can reach the market with the quality that requires us to Europe ", said Luis Galo.
The manifestation, convened by the newly activated Platform for Fair Price, a group that operates outside the agricultural professional organizations, only he had the express support of the Palm Association of Farmers and Ranchers (Aspa) and some public managers, those present, including mayors of CC and PSOE political parties.
At the end of the march, the organizers delivered a manifesto to José Luis Perestelo, currently acting president of the Cabildo de La Palma.
Galo said that there is much interest for this to continue, "When we receive 30 cents for a kilo of bananas and the consumer pays 2,70, there are many interests ". What they ask farmers are 90 cents sale green "with transportation costs, indicted, boxes, input, etc, you will get the farmer a 50 cents,that is the minimum to produce a kilo of bananas ".
Wladimir Brito Rodríguez, present in the protest, They noted that the banana has the same path as tomato follow things as they are. "In Europe money will not come to bring bananas to dump Mazo. It is logical that silver lining. Spain consumes 500 million bananas a year, i.e. 10 Weekly million kilos, and last week we were able to market in the Canary Islands six million kilos and have taken to the landfill 1,5 million, this can not be maintained and European aid us remove, why are 300 liters of water per kilo of bananas, if we are not able to market ".
And he gave a figure, in Cadiz are the cheapest bananas in Tenerife in the same trade chain, in particular where Mercadona was the kilo yesterday 1,40 already 1,60 in Tenerife ". This way we cant work, Brito added Rodriguez.