Iron promotes production last fig.

Hopping there 254 hectares of crops that could be used for the production of traditional past fig.

The Cabildo de El Hierro has launched a pilot project whose main objective is the maintenance and upkeep of the landscape of fig trees and consolidating production of figs as extra income for farmers herreños.

To make it, it has established a collaboration agreement with the City of El Pinar de El Hierro is expected to be extended to the other two municipalities of the island, as reported by the insular president himself, Alpidio Armas.

This agreement includes measures aimed at facilitating the tasks of plowing, cava, drying figs and marketing of both fresh fig and last.

“In search of new economic opportunities for El Hierro, we have seen that has always been the fig with cheese and wine has been reference product and outstanding quality, so we try to put the conditions for the fig, the FIG tree, is an additional source of income for our farmers”, Armas says.

Within the project, is particularly relevant, by the novelty, the new system made available to owners fig trees that allows efficient drying figs, avoiding losses due to weather conditions or conditions pest, among others.

"We installed six driers figs and we have been overwhelmed by the success we have had and we already have 48 applications”, insular president says. “It is a completely natural system, which optimizes the effect of solar radiation, regardless of the weather, allowing us to ensure that in times like this year when production is late figs have to be passed as if we were in August, in the best time of year”.

The fig tree is essential in the landscape of the island of El Hierro; splashes virtually all over the island, especially the production in El Pinar in Valverde with massive presence in areas and towns North Isora.

El Hierro wants to use, In addition, that currently there has been a turnaround in the consumer, more appetite for this type of natural product, and the high price achieved in the markets.

With the development of the economy of the Islands, the late twentieth century, the fig spent in the Canary Islands to be the pampered species for centuries to be a marginal species intended solely for home consumption and production of figs past mainly in El Hierro.

The presence of the fig trees in El Hierro, as well as in the rest of the Islands, dating back to pre-Hispanic times, but it is in chronicles of Juan Antonio Urtusaústegui in 1779, in its daily trip to the island of El Hierro, where we find a description of walnut or purple fig trees as white in the insular geography.

Today, the Canarian Institute of Statistics records that El Hierro has 254 hectare crop, some 8.000 higueras.