Agroaldea
THEY TOURED THE PACKAGING FACILITIES AND LEARNED ABOUT THE APPLICATION OF THE LATEST ADVANCES.
Six members of the technical team of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishing of the Government of the Canary Islands in the province of Las Palmas, They moved to the municipality of La Aldea to learn about and visit the COAGRISÁN agricultural cooperative.The team was received by the president, Juan José de el Pino, and the director-general, Jacinto Godoy, who introduced them to the administrative staff of the cooperative with whom they usually talk, via telephone and telematics, on documentation and files of cooperators.
Technicians from the La Aldea Agrarian Extension Agency were also present and accompanied the delegation..
After visiting the packaging warehouse at full capacity, The displaced technical team had the opportunity to delve deeper into the current situation that affects the Canary Island tomato export, know how the distribution and sales channel works and address the closest challenges.
Del Pino explained the difficulties that prevent having solvency regarding delays in the payments of aid and subsidies, as well as non-compliance translated into cuts in items that were already approved.
On the other hand, Jacinto Godoy, explained and described the technical actions adopted that have allowed COAGRISÁN to be placed in first place in profitability and production.
They were able to verify the application of the latest advances during a visit to the R&D&i greenhouse where they verified the effect of a state-of-the-art structure on crops., experimentation with new substrates, plastic covers, recirculation and study of about two hundred varieties of seeds.
In the agricultural urbanization of Las Tabladas, The technical team had the opportunity to put a face to many of the files that they have processed and are currently managing, at the same time they verified the investment made in the modernization of structures based on the results of the R&D&i model.
The technicians praised the developed model as well as the condition “excellent” of the structures, the crops and the urbanization itself that they described as “model”.
Accompanied by some technicians from the cooperative and its vice president, Rogelio Rodriguez, They visited the hydraulic infrastructure of the agricultural urbanization and were able to see the surface that is already applying plastic covers with their respective regrowth..
In the second part of the day, the department's technicians visited the network of living museums of the La Aldea Community Development Project, being pleasantly surprised at the Velázquez warehouse, for the recreation of the activity of more than fifty years ago.
