Agroaldea
FACING THE LACK OF RESPONSES FROM THE ADMINISTRATIONS THAT DO NOT ALLOW THE CAMPAIGN TO START.
The Popular Party promised to continue working for the sector and mediate with the Ministries of Development and Agriculture, as well as to guarantee the imminent publication of the transportation compensation resolution.
The PSOE recalled having achieved legal certainty for transport compensation and the increase up to 70%, and promised to mediate with President Rivero as government partners in the regional Executive.
The Platform for the Defense of Tomato, Fruits and Vegetables Canary Islands, conveyed to the representatives of the PP and the PSOE the agony and desperation in which the sector is immersed as it has not yet been able to start the campaign, which keeps us in tremendous uncertainty 20.000 workers and their families.
In the different meetings that have also been held with NC and CC, as well as with the president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, José Miguel Bravo de Laguna, from the Platform have influenced the tragedy that the cessation of activity could mean for the island of Gran Canaria where the 85% of the activity and 90% of the employment it generates.
For the popular parliamentarian, Mª Australia Navarro, who came accompanied by Ana Mª Guerra and Felipe Afonso, the achievement of transportation compensation 70% It is vital for the sustainability of the sector, Therefore, he promised to continue working so that in the next budgets this is contemplated..
From the Platform they reminded him that the sector in this sense has suffered a double cut since, In addition to having this compensation left in a 25% in recent years, Production has also been decreasing, so increasing the percentage would not mean increasing the amount for it., at the same time that we are equal to the peninsular producers and our insular status is recognized.
For her part, the opposition councilor of the GC Council, Carolina Darias, who was accompanied by Emilio Mayoral and David Díaz, explained that during her time as Government Delegate she achieved legal certainty for transportation compensation and the increase in the percentage up to 70%.
The Platform asked them, as government partners in the regional executive, and despite not having skills in Agriculture, Get involved so that the president offers a response that allows the campaign to begin and avoid the social drama that workers whose benefits are beginning to run out and have not been able to be called to work are beginning to suffer..
The sector begins to accumulate 20 days of delay in the campaign program as we have not yet been able to sow the seedbeds and have not yet prepared the lands and greenhouses, due to a response that does not finish arriving from the administrations involved.
From the Platform they warn that, not to start the campaign before the next day 10 of July, It would be very difficult for the sector to meet its customers and for the Canarian tomato to reach the market in a timely manner.. All parties and their representatives have agreed on the importance of this sector, not only because of its history, the activity and the jobs it generates, but because the Canary Islands cannot afford the loss of it.
The Platform trusts that the sum of all the parties as well as the efforts being made by all parties, allow us to start the campaign and then work in the medium and long term and not have to return to this situation again at the end of the harvest.