The cultivated area in Tenerife has increased by 1,119 hectares. This was indicated this Monday by Javier Parrilla, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Council of Tenerife. According to Parrilla, this is the figure that the island would have gained in cultivated area up to 18,738 hectaresaccording to data published by the regional governmentl in the Crop Map of the Canary Islands.
disaggregated by category and groupingit is observed how the increase in the orchard focuses on fallowwhile the increase in fruit trees is mainly linked to subtropical trees, such as avocado, and besides, there are more cereals, legumes and fodderspecifies the Cabildo in a statement.
Also, it has expanded the irrigated area in 520.2 hectareswhich is fundamentally linked to the increase in the orchard (454.5 hectares) and of the fruit trees (535.3 hectares)and has increased or started grazing on agricultural land. On the contrary, the results of the study reflect a important reduction of the area without cultivation (abandoned)which is due, in large part, to the increase in crops linked to orchards and fruit trees, as well as the entry into cultivation of old wastelands, according to the insular corporation.
Within the cultivated area, the main reductions are focused on the vineyard and the tomato“for which we are taking reorganization measures that will generate better and greater productivity in the future,” details the counselor.
The island manager of the primary sector highlights the importance of this study, “which allows us to know the reality of the agricultural area of the Canary Islands and which will serve as a basis for promoting more accurate and effective agricultural policies in Tenerife.” In this sense, he recalls that between 2007 and 2019 the island registered a decrease of 7,000 hectares, “but little by little, thanks to the efforts of this government group, we have begun to recover.”
In line with the above, the counselor emphasizes that this year the Cabildo will launch a call for aid for the recovery and cultivation of abandoned land, which will have a budget of 48,730 euros.
It also emphasizes the Agrojoven Awards, endowed with 20,000 eurosAnd in the agri-food scholarships José Luis Porcunafor which an item of €21,600.
According to the report, the garden is still the predominant cultivated area in Tenerife (43% of the total)followed by the banana tree (20%)the vineyard (15.6%) and the fruit trees (12.7%).
The ornamental crops are limited to 1.9% and the tomato maintains the negative trend which had been detected since previous campaigns, and is currently in the 0.5%is added in the statement.
