The Forest fire in the north of Tenerife, which originated on July 21, affected some 40 agricultural hectares, in the mid-range areas with cereal and fruit crops, mainly apple and pear trees.
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 be able to enable aid 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 Council of Tenerife.
In addition, he highlighted the experience that the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the regional Executive has in this type of situation, given that in this mandate alone, extraordinary aid has already been enabled on three occasions: 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 eruption of the volcano, also in 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.
