Agroaldea
The aid amounts to a total of 11,1 million and will benefit 610 petitioners.
The Department of agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and waters of the Canary Islands, through the Directorate General for Agriculture, He resolved the call for aid for the modernization of farms, a total of 11.112.383,97 million euros.
In total there will be 610 farmers who receive their help once the actions they have done on their farms have been certified, as recorded by the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC) and it sets out in the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 (PDR 2014-2020)
The aim with the aid is to improve the economic performance of the holdings, and facilitate their restructuring and modernization in terms of size, production, in addition to direct them to standards of innovation in relation to the conservation of the environment and climate change; improve the use of production factors by including new technologies, and systems and tools for innovation with a focus on quality, organic production and diversity.
In addition, These grants will allow farmers to adapt their farms to the new requirements imposed by the EU on environment and health, among others.
Among the actions that have been considered as eligible are improvements in irrigation systems and the efficiency of fertilizer use; sorribas performing and leveling; new crop plantations or renewal; building warehouses or quarters tools; infrastructure in general, interior roads and rafts; the construction of crop protection systems or mechanization, and other facilities to improve and facilitate the management of the farm.
These subsidies, which they were convened in advance late last year to address one of the most demanded lines PDR 2014-2020 and corresponding to this annuity and the first half of 2017, They are compatible with other subsidies, income or resources for the same purpose granted by the state or territorial public administration, and public or private entities provided their accumulation does not exceed the limits laid down in European legislation.