The Agricultural Development Program of Employment allocated to the Canary Islands almost 3 million euros.

DESPITE BEING ONE OF THE SECTORS THAT HAS FACED THE CRISIS BEST, THE EQUIPMENT REMAINS THE SAME AS IN RECENT YEARS.

The Government delegate in the Canary Islands, María del Carmen Hernández Bento, he reported, after the meeting of the Regional Monitoring Commission of the Agricultural Employment Promotion Program, that the provincial distribution of funds proposed by the General Directorate of the State Public Employment Service has been ratified, and the Canary Islands will have 2,8 million euros.Hernández Bento added that the Agricultural Employment Promotion Program is provided with the same amounts as in previous years. (2011, 2012 and 2013), assuming a “significant number of jobs”, highlighting the “important effort” made by the Ministry of Employment and Social Security.

"The Government has once again shown its sensitivity towards the Canary Islands, which has an unemployment rate higher than 33 percent and with a prominent sector in the islands such as the primary, maintaining for the Agricultural Employment Promotion Program the almost 3 millions of euros that it had”, he said.

These subsidies assigned by the SEPE are intended to guarantee an income supplement through the redistribution of employment between the town councils that are part of the regional councils for the execution of works of general interest..

In this sense, by provinces that of Las Palmas, in particular, The regional councils of Gáldar and Santa Lucía de Tirajana will have 1,6 million euros, While 1,2 millones de euros serán para la provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife para los consejos comarcales de La Orotava, Granadilla de Abona y Los Llanos de Aridane.

Also, la delegada recordó que el año anterior este Programa permitió la contratación de 923 workers, lo que contribuyó “a aliviar la compleja situación que atraviesa el sector primario que no se ha visto exento de las compleja coyuntura económica actual”.