The Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Cabildo de Tenerife, headed by the counselor Javier Parrilla, has already granted aid for the implementation of the health programs of the Livestock Health Defense Groups (ADSG), which have a global amount of 100,000 euros. A total of seven ADSGs have benefited from these grants: ADS Ovican, Aprolec, ADS Porcino de Tenerife, Agate (goat / sheep), Avícola, Caprino Guajara and Apiten.
Parrilla emphasizes that these grants, convened by the non-competitive competition procedure, seek to “pay for the implementation of the health programs of the ADSG, entities that are key to guaranteeing the animal health of the island cattle herd, within a situation of health crisis derived from the pandemic and that has a significant impact on the livestock sector, which has to continue with less income doing the tasks that are proper to it, such as feeding, milking, cleaning, and in general, caring for livestock.
These aid for the ADSG are added, within the livestock subsector, to those for the implementation of programs to improve the quality of sheep and goat milk produced in livestock farms on the island and of the products obtained in dairy farms and artisanal cheese factories, with an investment of 150,000 euros, and those destined to the expenses of feeding the species of ovine, goat, bovine, swine, rabbit and poultry in the island cattle farms, which have a total amount that amounts to 1,355,000 euros and The purpose of which is to alleviate the aggravated economic situation that the livestock sector is going through as a result of the pandemic situation.
“With all these subsidies we want to help stop a reduction in the island’s livestock censuses, offering greater possibilities of recovery in this area once the current health crisis has passed,” Parrilla stressed.
