Minister of agriculture before the members of the platform signs the order of five million for the tomato industry.

This amount corresponds to a part of the additional outstanding financial statement, of the Strategic Plan for Tomato Exports from the Canary Islands 2009/2014.

The Minister of Agriculture announced that the Order will be published in the BOC as soon as possible, knowledgeable about the urgency for the sector.

The Platform for the Defense of Tomato, Fruits and Vegetables of the Canary Islands met this morning with the Minister of Agriculture of the Government of the Canary Islands, Juan Ramón Hernández and the Vice Minister of Agriculture, Alonso Brook, to address the commitments agreed at last day's meeting 5 July with the president of the Government of the Canary Islands.

One of the agreements reached at that meeting was to allocate five million euros, corresponding to the additional sheet of the Strategic Plan for the Tomato Exportation sector of the Canary Islands, of the years 2010 and 2012. Within the framework of the meeting, The counselor ratified the Order that will make effective this amount that the sector urgently needs.

Also, The publication of the Order will allow the Platform to transfer to the Ministry of Agriculture the compliance of the Government of the Canary Islands, necessary according to Minister Isabel García Tejerina, for your department to get involved with this sector.

The members of the Platform thanked the Minister and Vice-Minister of Agriculture and his team, the diligence they have put into the processing of this Order, taking into account the numerous difficulties that arose in its preparation.

In addition, before the end of October, The Ministry will convene a working committee to undertake the next Strategic Plan 2015/2020 that contemplates, They will be able to computerize their farms thanks to Crotalia, compensation for the deficiencies of the current Plan that now expires.

On the other hand, Hernández informed the Platform that he will hold an upcoming meeting to monitor and assess the efforts that both the department and the Platform itself will carry out in the coming weeks to achieve the viability of this sector and clear up the uncertainty of what has come to be described as the most uncertain harvest..

Finally, The impact that the “Russian veto” will have on Canarian tomato production for export was addressed., since the first shipments will begin to be made the last week of October, for which direct contact was established to channel the information and appropriate procedures in order to minimize the impact.