SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 4 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife will allocate 248,487 euros to the preparation of a Tenerife Livestock Strategic Plan with the aim of analyzing the situation of the island’s livestock sector and defining future lines of action, in order to promote its competitiveness, promote generational renewal and increase the cattle herd of Tenerife.
The insular Councilor for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Javier Parrilla, explained that the drafting of the project has already been commissioned, which has an execution period of 12 months, so it will be completed at the beginning of December this year.
In this sense, he specified that the diagnosis should delve not only into questions of a livestock, market or marketing nature of kilometer zero products, but also into regulatory, economic and environmental aspects. Therefore, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) established by the United Nations will have to be addressed and incorporated.
The island manager highlighted the importance “of knowing and analyzing in depth all the factors that affect our livestock sector to guarantee the effectiveness of island policies and actions.” In this regard, he pointed out that it is a matter of establishing future lines of work so that the Island has a more competitive livestock sector, but also to promote the consumption and marketing of local livestock products.
Javier Parrilla also wanted to recall that since the arrival of the new government team they have not only managed to “stop the plummeting number of farms, but the island’s cattle herd has increased by 9.5 percent” . “However, Tenerife has room for growth for the production of food of livestock origin, which would increase the self-sufficiency rates of the island, a strategic issue for any territory, but especially for the Canary Islands, as was demonstrated during the crisis of Covid-19”, he added.
In line with the above, the island manager assured that the world events of the last two years “have caused consumers to value and appreciate local products more, both for their freshness and continuity and for their quality”, and highlighted “the numerous campaigns, fairs, workshops, tastings and culinary demonstrations launched by the Island Corporation in the last three years to boost the country’s meat consumption”.
