Hergora catering company is interested in the direct supply.

HÉRGORA IS DEDICATED TO SCHOOL CATERING, HOTELS AND RESIDENCES.

The Direct Harvest project, which currently brings together seven cooperatives that will offer their products directly to hotel chains, added a new client who will diversify the demand for its products, thanks to a preliminary signing agreement reached with the company Hérgora.

The Minister of Agriculture of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Demetrio Suarez, met with the CEO of the Hérgora Company, Antonio Gonzalez. They accompanied the counselor, Rafael Hernández, President of COAG Canarias and Antonio Suárez, President of Direct Harvest. The object, reach a pre-agreement.

The next 31 May the president of Cosecha Directa will meet again, the director and the general director of the company Hérgora, for, if the negotiation proceeds as planned, definitively close an agreement.

This will mean for the fruit and vegetable producers of Gran Canaria to place another two million kilos per year and that, added to those already contracted last Wednesday with the Lopesan Group, suppose a portfolio of “up to eight million kilos a year” placed within a week.

And it is that after the agreement reached by the largest hospitality group in the Canary Islands with the island's farmers, Many catering companies have been interested in the project, as well as producers, like beekeepers, that yesterday afternoon they held another meeting in order to supply the growing catalog of Direct Harvest products.

The ultimate goal is to create employment, with a potential of up to 20.000 jobs and recover a sector that has fallen since last year below the 1 Percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the Canary Islands, which is largely attributed to import aids that contrast in volume with subsidies for Canarian agriculture.