SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The European Commission has approved the proposal to modify the Posei for 2023 submitted by the Government of the Canary Islands to Brussels last summer and which will mean the largest financial record for the Canarian countryside in the history of this program to support local production, with a planned amount of 302.2 million euros.
The green light for this essential document for the primary sector of the Canary Islands represents a significant budgetary increase in the main measures and a guarantee for the agricultural production of the islands.
For the additional Posei, 12.3 million more per year are contemplated compared to the initial figure for 2022, which brings the total amount to 33.8 million per year.
From 2019 to 2023, the additional Posei aid has increased by approximately 20 million, according to a note from the Executive.
For measure I to support vegetable production, its file goes from 53 million in 2022 to 58 by 2023, registering increases in measures related to fruit and vegetable crops, or flowers and plants, with 3.5 million increases; for the potato, the aid to the surface is improved, which goes from 950 euros per hectare to 1,240; and for the production of wines with PDO, the aid has increased since 2019 by about 50% per hectare.
In relation to measure III to support animal production, the budget increases by approximately 7 million euros, from 33.4 in 2022 to 40.4 million by 2023. Among its main modifications, 4 million more for animal production stand out. milk, with an increase of between 50 and 60% for aid for bovine milk and between 7 and 8 cents per liter for goats.
In both cases, aid is increased for the first time in the non-capital islands with the aim of alleviating the higher production costs.
There is also a 20% improvement in meat and aid for fodder crops, which rises from 350 euros per hectare to 600 euros to encourage the cultivation of local fodder for animal feed.
The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary Islands, Alicia Vanoostende, highlighted “the cooperation and teamwork of all the sectors involved to have a strong budget document with guarantees for the agricultural activity of the islands, is the Posei with the highest financial record in history”.
In this line, he stressed that “these are relevant improvements that will contribute to strengthening a strategic sector for society that has had to suffer the economic consequences of the increase in inputs and raw materials, the war in Ukraine or the volcanic eruption in the island of La Palma”.
The objective, he said, “is to start updating the inflation aid, since it has not been done since 2014.”
