The Plan Insular de Medianías, an initiative that aims to promote the primary sector, It is resumed this year with force after two attempts with two stops in 2020 and 2021. The first actions will take place in the regions and towns of Agache, Fasnia and Arico, in the south of the Island. They intend to favor the incorporation of women and young people to agricultural activity as a way to avoid the progressive depopulation of rural areas.
The island group CC-PNC has managed to reactivate this project through an amendment to the 2022 budgets. It proposes recovering agricultural land and boosting the activity of the primary sector. The nationalists presented this proposal to the accounts of the next fiscal year and it was approved by all the political groups in plenary session.
The nationalist councilor, Antolín Bueno, promoter of the idea, explains that “this is good news for the primary sector, which demands greater attention. We have obtained an item of 30,000 euros for the implementation of the conclusions and actions of the Mid-Range Plan that will begin to be carried out in the South ”. Add that «It is about fixing people to the rural world to avoid depopulation, as well as promoting the incorporation of young people and women to the activity in the primary sector to dignify it ».
Bueno proposes “appropriate actions in training, land reclamation, irrigation infrastructures and crop planning that help achieve profitability and sustainability in the primary sector.”
“The objective is to fix the population to the rural world and prevent it from gradually emptying”
In March 2019 the Council approved to carry out two works of socioeconomic analysis of strategic rural spaces. This was endorsed by the plenary session in May of that year, when a motion was unanimously approved to strengthen the midlands of Tenerife.
«The objective», explains Bueno, «is enhance rural, cultural and ethnographic heritage as a way to promote sustainable rural development and economic activity ”. For this, it considers necessary “the collaboration of the groups and administrations that work in this area through a specific plan that Gesplan has already drawn up.” The nationalist advisor recalls that “there the appropriate strategies were designed to improve the quality of life of the population and, ultimately, favor the rural development of this territory.”
The initiative was paralyzed in 2019 with the change of government in the Cabildo and was resumed in March 2020. Bueno explains: “We reached an agreement, but it was never launched due to the pandemic. That is why we present an amendment so that the Midway Plan becomes effective in 2022, starting in the south ».
Antolín Bueno concludes: «It is essential to promote the primary sector, recover lost lands and favor the occupation of young people and women. That would allow creating jobs and having less dependence on the outside by being more self-sufficient.
