The majorera Lentil aspires to the Designation of Origin.

The majorera Lentil is the smallest of Spain and that certainly would qualify for a Designation of Origin, in paragraph legumes.

According to agronomists, Jaime Gil and Marta Peña, which for more than a decade working in the rescue of old crop varieties Canary Islands, "It is an old variety and multiplies in some ancestral agricultural structures such as the majoreras topsails."

These experts confirm that the ancient seeds Lentil Maxorata has "great potential", although nuance that, ahead of their sale abroad, require the adoption of promotional strategies. "We do not know how consumers would welcome a grain of such a small size, aspect that gives a great value, it does not exist in the mainland a lentil of these characteristics ".

Apart from the majorera Lentil, both agronomists not currently quantified in many of these varieties of seeds of vegetables and other crops still in the fields of Fuerteventura. "Let us know, It has not been addressed specific collection work for it with the necessary methodology ". In any case, what can be found today in the majorero field represents a small part of the agricultural past ", point.

Local seed varieties are selected by farmers over centuries of activity, among many others, definitely, They arrived in Fuerteventura, for its ability to perform under the island harvest environmental conditions, Gil define and Peña.

Taking into account such extreme circumstances in which agriculture performed, especially, in Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, the loss of these old varieties is "a real backwardness". Rusticity presenting these varieties constitutes "great value, to which we can often add interesting organoleptic characteristics'.

Currently only agrodiversity Center of La Palma and Tenerife Seed Bank maintain acceptable performance and offer old seeds.