AgroaldeaDuring the visit accompanied by five general directors and the Vice Minister of Fisheries.
The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Government of the Canary Islands, Pilar Merino, transmitted to the primary sector of the village important doses of optimism, From the commitments he acquired during his visit.
The sector insisted on the need to solve the present in order to reach that future in which all administrations agree that it will have. But, To get there, It is necessary to solve the current debt problem.
Another demand that the sector believes that it will help the materialization of immediate solutions, It goes through the institutional declaration of the municipality of La Aldea as a area of special economic protection.
Among some of the commitments acquired by the counselor, The intermediation with the financial entities for those cases in which the entities have not provided loans. To do this, he requested all possible information.
Another commitments will be the proposition of the village as a “preferential municipality” within the framework contemplated by the Sustainable Rural Development Plan, since it meets all the requirements for this.
Pilar Merino flatly denied the solution of the village agricultural sector aimed only to the internal market, As some point out. This was also stated by the Director General of Rural Development and the director of the Food Quality Canarian Institute.
Focus production exclusively to fruits and vegetables for internal market, would collapse the already saturated island markets. The correct option, Merino said, go through diversification, But not for concentration.
In this sense, The counselor recalled the strategic plan for export tomatoes which guarantees the future of this activity, equating it to that of other products such as banana. Regarding this fruit, A surface quota was requested to allocate to this crop that, in the years 60, exceeded the 300 Fanegadas in the municipality.
On the other hand, The City Council Councilor for Agriculture, Rosa Godoy, advanced some of the lines of the strategy for the primary sector. One of them refers to “the village, Pest Free Municipality in 2015 ", proposal that hosted the Ministry in a positive way offering an agreement between City Council and the Canarian Institute for Agricultural Research to work on this objective.
In the same line, The mayor indicated that another of the axes of this strategy is to ensure that the village in the 2017 apply the integrated struggle to one hundred percent and abandon conventional treatment.
Another of the options proposed from the Ministry is the creation of a protected geographical indication, IGP, since the municipality has many elements that would guarantee its achievement.
Regarding livestock, Next to the coaldea reflotation that the Cabildo is working, The counselor announced that the law is being processed that will allow the legality of livestock farms.
The Vice Minister of Fishing, He reported that the first sale point, It will be a reality shortly, since while the infrastructure is prepared, It can be located provisionally at the facilities of the Fishermen's Brotherhood.
In short, Both proposals and commitments have made the village primary sector show certain optimism, which will be greater depending on the materialization of them.