The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary Islands has specified this Wednesday in a statement that the first steps are still being taken to make the initial assessments in order to enable help for these cases.
He has advanced that it is expected that by the end of this month they will have the exact figures to work in September on these aids that can be enabled by both the Canarian Government and the Cabildo de Tenerife.
In addition, he highlighted the experience of the Regional Executive’s Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries in this type of situation, since In this mandate alone, extraordinary aid has already been enabled three times: in the episode of haze, fire and wind just before the pandemic on the island of Tenerife; last year in the fire in the Valle de Aridane, in La Palma, and in the volcano eruption, also on La Palma.
The Ministry emphasized the existence of two determining factors in the fire: “On the one hand, the delay in the wheat harvest, which allowed the fire not to approach the houses and, on the other, the changing wind, which was an element against.
The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary Islands, Alicia Vanoostende, accompanied by the island director of the Cabildo, Cayetano Silva, and the mayors of San Juan de la Rambla and Los Realejos, Ezequiel Domínguez and Darío Pérez (accidental mayor), respectively, today visited the agricultural areas affected by the fire that occurred last July in both municipalities.
