THE COUNAGA AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE HAS BEEN HEADED TO CLOSURE.

Its virulence and the damage it caused was known., but it was never imagined that it would cause havoc in such a resounding way in the Canary Islands.. The damage that the tuta is causing to the tomato export sector is beginning to be “very serious and worrying”.

The president of the Cooperative Union of Farmers and Ranchers of Sardina del Sur, Counaga, Cesáreo Vega Pérez stated to Agroaldea What “the situation was already unsustainable, If the losses continued, they would have led us to total ruin.”.

Vega explained that the virulence of Tuta in the south of Gran Canaria will continue to take its toll on more producers and cooperatives.. The president of Counaga recognizes that not having adapted the structures: mesh changes preferably, has allowed the tuta to have decimated production in a dizzying manner.

The eight members that make up the cooperative are demoralized. Vega recognizes that the only possibility of continuing is through investment in the adaptation of structures, but in times like these, The shortage of currency further complicates the situation.

The president of Counaga believes that the next campaign will further reduce the surface in the south of the island. “There are many who announce that they are leaving it, it is not worth continuing to invest in a bottomless bag”.

Buena parte de los socios están replantando para dedicar parte de la producción a mercado local, However, de las 43 hectáreas que cultivan, no llega a la mitad lo que han destinado a este mercado.

Cesáreo afirma que esperarán al cierre de campaña para tomar una decisión definitiva sobre la siguiente campaña.

La tuta ha sido más fuerte y, por lo pronto, comienza a ganar la batalla. Algunos técnicos manifiestan que no se tomaron todas las medidas necesarias para blindar los cultivos contra esta plaga, que ya se conocían los ataques que han causado en otras zonas y el coste que ha supuesto.

Parece ser que la situación en el sur de Tenerife tampoco resulta mucho mejor. La incidencia de la tuta está provocando serios daños ante los que las medidas a emplear no están dando buenos resultados.