THE ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE AID THEY WILL RECEIVE THIS YEAR HAVE NOT SERVED TO PROVIDE LIQUIDITY.

We have the fruit, but the lack of liquidity to be able to market it, is placing the tomato export sector at a difficult crossroads. As, in a globalized market, the place of the non-compliant is immediately occupied by competitors. The sector announces that this can happen and, added, at stake is the employment of more than 10.000 families in the Canary Islands.

The situation is not good for anyone. However, It's hard to know that you have close to 45 meuros, but the financial entities do not advance you the amounts necessary to maintain the production and marketing of the fruit..

The sector cannot explain how banks and savings banks do not lend the money they need when the Council of Ministers itself has approved a game of 14,2 meuros, The European Commission has authorized the extraordinary aid and the Government of the Canary Islands has confirmed its corresponding part.

Representatives of exporter groups have recognized that these public funds not only support and strengthen the continuity of the sector, but they are an important guarantee to meet the commitments of suppliers.

However, They warn that if financial entities do not make their position more flexible, The opportunities provided by these funds could be truncated and that would harm many Canarian families., that would increase the unemployment lists.

Sector sources add that, in these times of crisis, For the first time in four years, the sector does not reduce the cultivated area, maintains employment and has stopped bringing in foreign labor to favor local labor that previously rejected this type of employment.