salinas bufaderoThe future of Gran Canaria sea salt through 'the necessary improvement of the envasado-etiquetado and above all marketing'.

The Ministry of Food Sovereignty of the council has been proposed to value the sea salt Gran Canaria and improve the health of the five saline treasures the Island. One is inoperative, another wasted half of their pits and all require rehabilitation and conditioning.

Underrated and unprofitable, the future of Gran Canaria sea salt passes through "the necessary improvement of packaging-labeling and especially marketing" of a historic and quality product that is part of the ethnographic and cultural heritage of the island.

[quote]This is recommended by radiography that the Ministry of Food Sovereignty Cabildo you just made five salt left in Gran Canaria, four on the east and one in the North.[/quote]

Given the current state of the last redoubts of the other extractive industry, the technical report advises undertake rehabilitation activities in defense walls located by the sea, Tajos the crystallizing y cortavientos, improvements in the pipes and fittings of cookers and tomaderos as tasks required to update facilities.

The only one of the five salt in which salt is obtained on a bed of stone, Bufadero the Arucas, today it is not producing a gram because the damage posed by cuts. Is the last vestige of that marked the North, mine salt flower, Article increasingly demanded by haute cuisine.

The four are salt Southeast Mediterranean typology, with tamping clay pits. Of them, is the Arinaga, harborside, the least advantage which has. Divided into two, production are only in the 429 South Zone. The 318 North side is not working.

The other three are operational and in good general condition. The salt flats have Tenefé 386 gashes underway and production is the highest in the Archipelago. Acquired by the town of Santa Lucia de Tirajana, It is the only packaged and labeled several types of coarse salt and fine.

Close together, those of Bocacangrejo and Florida are north Vargas Beach and south of Burrero, in Agüimes. They are private and smaller.