La Palma is the second island with the largest number of organic operators.

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Currently with 268 producers, producers and marketers of these productions, behind Tenerife, It records 465 registered.

These figures are contained in the registry of operators of organic production (ROPE) It manages the Department of agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and waters of the Canary Islands by the Canarian Institute of agro-food quality (ICCA).

These figures are added 256 operators in Gran Canaria, 77 in Lanzarote, 53 in iron, 50 in Fuerteventura, and 20 in La Gomera; amounts that add up to a total of 1189 operators in the archipelago.

The area dedicated to these productions on the island occupies 345, 39 hectares, that is to say the 5,91% of the total certified in the Canary Islands including pastures.

From 2012 the extension of cultivation has increased in 68,08 hectares, growth which corresponds mainly to the increase in banana (16 It has.) and avocados (9 It has.)

The island is a reflection of the trend of continued growth in this area that the archipelago experiences from 2010, to detect an increase of 41 Operadores-Cifra that makes the second island that has most evolved in this aspect - of 2012 to 2014.