The Minister of Agriculture announces that pays tomato growers agreed with the farmers of La Aldea.

IT IS REGRETTABLE THAT THEY HAD TO SUFFER A SEVEN-DAY HUNGER STRIKE FOR, FIVE MONTHS LATER, EXECUTE WHAT IS JUSTICE.

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of the Canary Islands has reported that the fertilizer is being carried out, this same month of March, of the 9,35 million euros allocated to this product, included in the agreement reached with the tomato subsector.

In a statement, The Ministry of Agriculture indicates that it has already transferred two million euros to the beneficiaries of this aid., processed through the Community Program to Support Agricultural Productions in the Canary Islands (POSEI).

At the end of this month, The Canarian Government plans to pay the tomato sector another 7,35 million euros, of those who 5,1 million belong to the European token and 2,25 million come from the transfer of funds from the Special Supply Regime (REA) that the autonomous community assigned to this crop.

Thus, the Minister of Agriculture of the Canary Islands, Juan Ramon Hernandez, ensures that it complies with the agreement it signed last November with the seven village farmers, who were on hunger strike to claim what belongs to them, given the repeated non-compliance and apathy of the regional administration with the payment of aid.

The counselor promised, so, to be effective before 31 December of 2013 the planned payment of two million euros for the improvement of infrastructure in La Aldea.

Regarding POSEI aid, It was agreed to advance the subsidies per hectare and the extraordinary additional amounts, so that 9,35 million euros would be paid in the first months of the year 2014.

This amount is allocated to the Canary Islands export tomato subsector and is the sum of the 5,1 million from the European token, plus the 2,25 million that were allocated by the autonomous community to tomatoes through a transfer of REA funds.

It must be clarified that, Although the quantities released represent a relief for the impoverished sector, in practice, The funds allocated come entirely from Europe, Therefore, the Government of the Canary Islands has not allocated any extraordinary item, It has only modified deadlines and diverted funds.

To the 7,35 million, the Ministry specifies, We must add two million that are contemplated in the Law 4/2013 of the 2 last October, of extraordinary credit to the Budgets of the Community of the Canary Islands.

In reference to the payment of the modernization line of the Canary Islands Rural Development Program in the municipality of La Aldea, The counselor reported that he explained to the farmers that the payment document was, before your action, in the Intervention of the Autonomous Community to carry out the legal inspection process, prior to payment by the Treasury of the Government of the Canary Islands.

To which the women responded that “administration machinery is perfectly oiled to collect from citizens, but when it's her turn to pay, besides being lazy, turns out it's rusty. And you can't act like that”.

Pese al anuncio realizado por el consejero que da respiro y alivio al presente, en el mismo no se concreta ninguna acción referente al futuro que fue la segunda de las reivindicaciones de las siete mujeres aldeanas.