THE PURPOSE OF THE ENTITY IS TO ACHIEVE A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR NEEDY PROGRAM CHANGES.

After visiting Canary the European Commissioner for Agriculture, the European Commission has launched a public consultation on aspects, criteria and objectives that should govern the review of European funds for the period POSEI 2014-2020.

This review will take place before the end of this year, and with respect to the Archipelago, the regional government shall submit the proposal in Brussels Canary Islands for the redistribution of these funds will be in effect during the next six years.

Association for Rural Development has begun RURALDEA disclosure of the Consultation between partners, making extended to farmers, as well as general public interested in contributing to the European Commission their opinion and views on the redistribution of funds POSEI.

From RURALDEA understand that it is essential to change the current distribution of POSEI funds in order to implement a more fair and balanced deal with all subsectors of the Canary Islands.

Also, this entity considers that the current management model benefits some sectors over others, fact that can not consent to a Community funds that pursue the improvement and competitiveness of farmers and ranchers activity.

In the starting document it highlights the imbalance between some products for export, like banana, over others: "The need to ensure fair and equitable rents these producers has been a constant priority for the competent authorities of the Member States concerned due to the important socio-economic role of these sectors in the respective regions, although the measures taken in this regard do not really insist on the need to maintain and strengthen its competitiveness effective. Consequence of this approach has been the dominant tendency to ensure constant levels of support for these productions, possibly to the detriment of the needs of other agricultural sectors in expansion ", collects the document.

The goal is to make the POSEI to be approved for the next six years fairer and encourage better positioning of other products, ensuring the survival of some subsectors such as tomato or the livestock sector, given the high production costs which maintain, They are now in an untenable situation.

In order to boost the participation and input channel, RURALDEA hold three sessions that will present the document and explain the procedure of the Consultation.

Those wishing more information can direct your inquiry to the email address of the entity: ruraldea@gmail.com