Promoted by the City Council and the Cabildo, It was presented at the II Faria del Agricultor.

Tirajana apricots already have their own identification label. The Councilor for Agriculture and Livestock presented this Saturday, José Carlos Álamo, and the head of the Agrarian Extension Service of the Cabildo, Carmen Brito, In the Ethnographic Museum of the Yánez, During the celebration of the II Faria del Agricultor.

With this label it is intended to value the fruit and that consumers can easily identify the origin of the apricots of the mediaías of this municipality, “and avoid with it the confusions that were often produced in supermarkets with other apricots of different origin and much lower quality”.

The label is the second step that the Cabildo and the Tirajanero City Council make in defense and promotion of this fruit crop in the Tirajana basin. In addition to the theoretical-practical courses on it, They have also published promotional material in which the five varieties that have the most imprint are collected in the municipality.

Among the varieties that are the late and Mayeros currot, El Sayeb, The carritic canine and the late red, that they take almost the 90% of the average production of this fruit and that swing between the 300.000 and the 350.000 kilos per year.

The identifier seal will be delivered from now on to all farmers who want to pack their apricots. In this respect, Carmen Brito said that during this harvest, that is already starting, An essay is also being carried out with container tubs to find out what format is the one that best suits the fruit market and consumers' taste.

The presentation of this label had as a framework the celebration of the II Farm of the Farmer of the Municipality, In the 13 fertilizer positions, agricultural machinery, plant protection products, cheese, bread and pastries, wines, honey, oil, Artisan ice cream, albaricoques, Almendra pastries of the Almond Association, vegetables, Gofio and species, among other products of the land.

During this fair, José Cazorla Quevedo's farmer and winemaker was paid tribute, Who was recognized as a pioneer of the first wine that was made in the so -called old house in Tunte, in the year 2001, What was the origin of the Las Tirajanas winery.

Cazorla Quevedo inherited the passion for her grandfather's wine Pepito María Cazorla, that a century ago produced homemade wine in Fataga sheep, although he truly entered into a matter when he inherited from his mother a farm in chamomile and, toward 1977, decided to plant it with different types of grapes to harvest and prepare the broths the talayón.

He did it in Fataga with also Bodeguero Adolfo Marrero, who praises his friend Cazorla Quevedo the combination that makes music and wine, as self -taught professor at the Music School of Mogán, and as a student of new oenological techniques and as a wine manufacturer, Now in the Mondalón and Picachos winery.