Agroaldea"VILLAGE CAN NOT afford THAT BETWEEN ONE MORE PLAGUE IN ITS TERRITORY AND FEW YEARS WILL BE A ROLE MODEL".
Councillor for agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the City of La Aldea is very clear: "The municipality will remain a reference in the primary sector of the archipelago and trendsetting: Its working on that, we believe, bet and the "Strategy" we design, give us reason”.
Agroaldea exclusive interview with Rosa Godoy Llarena that trace the main lines of the area that runs, and it shows some of the objectives of the strategy that is culminating in the sector.
TO. Difficult role at a time in which the primary sector sinks.
R.G. This is not the first crisis in the primary sector of the municipality. maybe, He has suffered the much more serious and has always managed to overcome the slump. Today we find ourselves in a situation in which globalization has a total effect, this leaves us little room for maneuver, but we find the gap by which we must walk ...
TO. This gap of speaking, He has managed to bring together the sector and work together in solving the same.
R.G. Working for the sector, but the only sector showing a desire for prominence, U.S, not ours. We are managers for four years. One / as understand this and other / as not. But if we do not have people we are not doing anything. In addition, they are the ones who accumulate much experience. La Aldea we have shown to live up to the occasion and that is what is allowing us to tackle the crisis maturely, criterion, analysis and, above all, with future, great future. In such circumstances partisanship has no place. When pitch in is when it shows who really believes in what he says and does, and who it is only in their own interests. This is like natural selection, the process is leaving on the way to who thus think and act.
TO. According to his words, it seems that you have it very clear.
R.G. I do not think that it is clearly. It is to believe in a significant number of people who opt for an activity that is what has allowed the development of La Aldea. Which has proven to have top quality products and above all, They have generated the "name". Agricultural products La Aldea hardly need advertising. Behind this prestige are the / as thousands of agricultore / as, livestock / as and fishermen, with his tenacity, They have managed to make the land and the sea one of the best cards that could imagine.
TO. He expressed optimism at a time of uncertainty.
R.G. It is that there are moments of crisis and uncertainty which must seize opportunities to reconvert. And these are. We know what the world situation, we know our possibilities and glimpse the path that remains to be done. Just about to order. Having the right tool for, as soon as conditions changed again, we are those who occupy the first train car. There is no time to lose. And there you have the example. The farmer / a and livestock / a villager / a, despite the situation, He has not thrown in the towel. It's more, He has continued betting and investing what has, because he knows that it depends overcome this bump. That only do, what / as who truly believe in it. And the primary sector of the village has future, present and a great past.
TO. Denote the enthusiasm of his words so, but this is not unflattering.
R.G. You see. We ended last season with a serious viral disease in export crops. We started this with this problem and added whitefly damaging crops export and domestic market as never before had seen. Livestock has been an increase in considerable cost and fisheries, better not name it: almost ten years waiting for since the first sale in a municipality where they
minimum to go to have this infrastructure are 40 kilometers after leaving the sea. With everything, We have known from the beginning to organize. We created a Cabinet and a Commission Crisis. The problem was socialized, She was transmitted and acted. An example: the Technical Commission action created a pilot project on whitefly with a protocol. Good results were forwarded to the south of Tenerife where he created something. The Standing Committee decides next steps and act with full consensus. agglutinates farmers, livestock, unions, political parties, town hall, Agricultural organizations ... will make mistakes and we will aim successes, but both are shared. That's the real bonus of this work. I think in the south of Tenerife have recently created a commission and you know what works here just copy ...
TO. Apart from the "union", What have been the achievements to date?
R.G. The most important thing has been to publicize the situation suffers. We've gone to all Administrations claims we make to each. We all have heard. Some are more remolonas and more diligent. The most urgent thing right now is debt refinancing sector. Work is continuously and on several fronts. No results yet, but they are taking small steps. Others, as transport aid has managed to unlock and make it effective. Investments also include guarantees, but peremptorily, as I say, is the injection of liquidity to overcome the slump. And we will get, Wow yes!. We have demonstrated our work for centuries we are able, and already in our genes. We can not help.
TO. It seems that the village is the only municipality that has this need, Do not you think that those who are in the same situation also deserve to be helped?
R.G. Of course yes. But I have to make a point: If Canarias is regarded by the EU as an Outermost Region, RUP, The village is within the RUP RUP. Why do I say this? Because this municipality continues to maintain isolation within the island. The communication path is winding north and insecure layout and, last but not above, We are corseted by natural spaces occupying 83% of land area, by which we perceive no compensation.
What development is us? Other municipalities have sectors such as services and small industries and roads that allow them to continue to develop ... As I say, Village today in the XXI century is still not on equal terms with similar municipalities. The AIDS?, for all, but equal.
TO. You speak of a "strategy" for the sector. What do you mean when you talk about it?
R.G. This concerns us, but the future in question. If anything we should learn from this situation is that we can not neglect the future. I plan it, I reach consensus, discuss it, map it will allow us to confront and expose the tools and information necessary to make it so: future, some future. This strategy is being finalized design. With items collected, those who have joined the industry experience and reflection we are able to present the Strategic Plan for the primary sector of La Aldea. This Plan "navigates" between two priorities: "The village free of pests and applying integrated struggle in 2015". This plan will make the sector is at the head of the train and leave the caboose of the CAP, using all instruments at our disposal ... And why not be the pantry of Gran Canaria, When we already are in much of Europe?…
This interview ends around two cups of coffee exiguous. Coffee which once cultivated at the edge of farms and "bites" the largest river basin Canary Islands. It is carefully collected and dried in eras, haystacks and roofs to be toasted, with care and dedication, grilled taginastes and leñabuena ... And is that the valleys of La Aldea, Tasarte and Tasartico have produced almost everything. Today reinvent themselves with new blood.