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Eleven routes in Rural Tenerife to be held this year will address the characteristics of selected crops.
The Tenerife Cabildo has launched the initiative “Tenerife Rural agricultural routes” to spread the values of the countryside among the local population.
It is about some monthly guided itineraries that will use as a common thread the most characteristic local products of the Island, those that have conditioned the landscape and ways of life in the environment.
The Minister of agriculture, Livestock and fisheries, Jesús Morales, has explained that it is “about a way to value local products and the work of farmers and their relationship with the landscape and ethnography.
Morales claimed the leadership of Tenerife not only as a tourist destination but also as a gastronomic one and opted to “give visibility” to the primary sector with initiatives like this “in which experiences linked to local products are offered.”.
On the other hand, the manager of the Tenerife Rural Foundation, Jorge de Miguel, he announced that, In addition to these agricultural routes, The Cabildo will promote other activities linked to hiking such as the so-called “Enoshiking with designation of origin Tenerife”, that will feature the wines of the Island and its five designations of origin.
The geographer Juan Antonio Jorge detailed the 11 routes that will be developed during this year, in which various aspects regarding the chosen crops will be addressed, like their organoleptic properties, its gastronomic possibilities or the physiognomy of the agricultural landscape.
Along the itinerary each local product will be explained, basic cultivation data, production areas, landscape and associated agricultural culture or ethnography, They will be able to computerize their farms thanks to Crotalia. “We want to value the culture of each product”, the expert indicated.
The water, as a natural resource and binding element for all crops, will star in the first of the routes through the municipality of La Guancha, in which aspects such as the functioning of irrigation communities will be shown, the water extraction system through galleries and wells or horizontal rain as the basis of the humid ecosystems of the Island.
In April there will be an itinerary through Tacoronte focused on the Guayonje onion, a crop deeply rooted in Tenerife gastronomy and popular culture, while in May it will be the turn of the Tenerife honey through a route through Arico, which will detail the main aspects related to this product.
Participants in the June route will delve into banana cultivation, essential in the rural morphology of Tenerife. The pretty potato and the cereal will be the protagonists of the July and August routes, respectively, both in the municipality of Los Realejos.
The itinerary the wine will be centered in El Sauzal (September) and that of the pippin apple (October) and the chestnut (November) They will be carried out in the Acentejo region. The mushrooms will put an end to these routes in Tenerife Rural in December, on this occasion with a walk through the municipality of El Rosario.