The new Strategic Plan for the Canarian tomato will assist the ability and the potential of the sector.

Minister of agriculture and Deputy Minister of primary Sector of the Canary, They claim that this sector can not disappear.

The Regional Federation FEDEX ACETO Services has held a meeting with Minister of agriculture, Livestock, Fishing and water, Narvay Quintero, and the Deputy Minister of primary Sector, Abel Morales, of the Government of the Canary Islands, in which they have agreed to jointly address the development of the new Strategic Plan for the Canarian tomato export.

During the meeting, Quintero moved to the Federation the status of negotiations has been doing its Department for the achievement of the modification of the POSEI. In this sense, Quintero and Morales reported from the meetings held in Brussels with technicians and managers from the Directorate-General of agriculture.

After providing supporting documentation and meet the requirements, the final document has been moved to the Ministry of agriculture to, ultimately, It is the Administration that has to negotiate to Brussels. It will be at the end of the month of November when the resolution is known of the Committee on agriculture, said Morales.

This modification, proposed by sector, consists in transfer quantitatively the amount that is not being spent in action 1.2.2 marketing of tomato (1,3M€ aprox.) to action 1.5 per hectare aid. With this transfer is achieved the 13.106 instead of the current € 7,700 euros.

Both the Minister and the Deputy Minister agreed that This measure, transient character, It will mitigate the situation of the sector to dispose of the new Strategic Plan, probably, at the end of next year.

For the elaboration of the new document, both parties they have agreed to evaluate the results of the previous previously in order to not make the same mistakes. In addition, will be provided Special attention to the potentials and capacities of the sector, key in the export of Canary Islands.

On the other hand, the President of the Federation, Jose Juan Bonny, moved the concern of the companies that are active, they see as, campaign after campaign, the number of producers is reduced, production and surface.

In this line, Bonny recalled that failure to comply with the additional POSEI fertilizers has been the cause of this situation. The castle of the Ministry of agriculture in the manure on their part, conditional on the compliance of the Government of the Canary Islands, He has also been crucial to allow this abandonment.

The cucumber sector requested the study of the tab that corresponds to this sector, that he has seen the same decrease in recent years, and to incorporate new producers has reduced considerably, demand that they pledged to analyze Quintero and Morales.

At the meeting he also addressed the compensation for transport which has resulted in another significant blow for the sector, the cut is the same at almost the 50% what had been. In this respect, the Deputy Minister informed that in the negotiation of the REF has worked for 'shielding' this primary factor.

At last, Government and industry were located to the month of November to know the opinion of the Commission with regard to the amendment and set the work schedule to deal with the new Strategic Plan.