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This time I had to resort to the weighted vote kilos marketed (a vote, tonne), to decant the victory side Sicily Henry as the new president of Asprocan.
Henry Hernandez Sicily, president of Asaga-Canarias, He has been elected president of the Association of Banana Producers Organizations Canary Islands (ASPROCAN), according to the resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the entity, held in the capital of Tenerife. The new owner comes to relieve Santiago Rodríguez Pérez, who has headed the association from 2012.
Sicily, who has reached the top spot of the non-profit organization, with six million euros annual budget (the bring something less than 9.000 harvesters), He won a victory by points, as it could not join the full support of the six organizations banana producers (UP) integradas a Asprocan, namely: Coplaca, Agriten, Llano de Sardina, Cupalma, Europlátano and Plataneros Canary Islands.
The first three OPP that list voted for the candidacy of Henry Sicily, while the remaining gave support to aspiring Plataneros linked to Canary Islands, the entity that leads the entrepreneur Felix Santiago grancanario.
At the end, after failing consensus on who should be the new president of Asprocan the weighted vote was used by kilos marketed (tonne, a vote), to decant the victory side Sicily Henry, What sumo 216 votes against the 176 José Lorenzo Pérez Vera.
Following his election, Henry Sicily, as it stated in the official note Asprocan about this same process, He insisted "on the need to preserve the unity of the banana sector, a key element in a time when the sector is facing major challenges in the field of marketing bananas and competition in the food sector ".
They asprocan the president and called for "further progress in the priority lines of action in which the organization has been working in recent years, which include the maintenance and improvement of current support to the sector [more public aid, and this despite available 141 million euros per year, and state support to freight, not yet achieved], with the purpose of cope with the increasing unfair competition which promotes the process of tariff descreste affecting bananas from third countries ".
In addition, la Asamblea General de Ordinaria Asprocan It approved the annual budget of the organization for 2016 and fees to be paid by farmers to finance the entity, an amount which has its translation in kilo marketed. This fertilizer per kilo will be around 0,017 EUR.
Today, Canary banana sector does not go through one of its best moments, with low prices in the single market destination (the rest of Spain and some in Portugal); with "spears" or market withdrawals of fruit shackled, this week will be on the seven million kilos; with decreased sales quota in the Peninsula (the banana is gaining ground ), and with very poor prospects of future short and medium term.
mainly because, in increasing cases, sales revenue banana does not cover local production costs and even, and this is achieved with the amount of aid to this fruit integrated into the POSEI program, with 141 million euros to be shared among all growers per year, at between 0,38 and 0,40 € per kilo.