The Platform for the Defense of Tomato welcomes the proposal of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria.

The Cabildo of Gran Canaria undertakes to purchase from the Government of the Canary Islands its 5% of participation in the compensation company of the Arinaga industrial estate, in liquidation phase, if you allocate those funds to the tomato sector.

The Platform for the Defense of Tomato, Fruits and Vegetables Canary Islands, has positively valued the offer announced by the president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, José Miguel Bravo de Laguna, by which it undertakes to buy from the Canarian Government its 5% of participation in the compensation company of the Arinaga industrial estate, in liquidation phase, if you allocate those funds to the tomato sector.

From the Platform they understand that this proposal can mean extraordinary support for the claim to the Government of Spain that, together with the response offered by the Government of the Canary Islands, would unblock the position that the central executive has been maintaining.

If the operation is carried out under the conditions proposed by the president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, the tomato sector would have 7 million euros (5 contributed and 2 earrings), which represent half of the additional POSEI that the Government of the Canary Islands owes to tomatoes.

Lack of liquidity has been the reason why the start of the campaign has been delayed, that I should have had a month. This same lack of liquidity is what has not allowed the contracting of campaign vessels to be carried out either., so these two million could represent another balloon of oxygen to guarantee transportation.

Bravo de Laguna declared that with this initiative the Cabildo of Gran Canaria contributes to helping a sector in which “thousands of jobs are at stake” and, at the same time, “It helps provide liquidity to the Government of the Canary Islands so that it can reduce its debt with tomato growers.”, thus facilitating the next harvest, and also indirectly stimulating compliance with its commitments by the central Administration.".

This gesture enhances the attitude of the Cabildo by not having conditioned the proposal on the producers of the island of Gran Canaria., but also, if approved by the Government of the Canary Islands, Producers from Tenerife and Fuerteventura will benefit.