SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 20 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, reported this Friday that, since January 1, the island’s cattle farmers are exempt from paying taxes and transport costs for the use of the Tenerife Island Slaughterhouse.
Pedro Martín values ”the culmination of a procedure of great legal and administrative difficulty that will allow Tenerife’s livestock to have a lower cost in its production process” and recalls that the suspension of tariffs, for one year, will mean an estimated saving of 1,132,779 euros for the sector.
The island president also recalls that they have approved in a plenary committee that the suspension of rates be extended for at least another year because “the situation in the sector is complicated and that the current scenario, with a war in Ukraine and inflation affecting the economies of all of Europe, requires the implementation of extraordinary measures and procedures that contribute to reducing uncertainty”.
For his part, the Island Councilor for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Javier Parrilla, stresses that this measure “will facilitate the promotion and growth of business confidence, strengthening the future productivity of the sector”, and recalls that for farmers and Farmers that can take advantage of this suspension of rates must hold a sales contract for the commercialization of meat within the Food Chain Law.
The insular person in charge emphasizes that “since the beginning of the mandate this corporation has been at the side of the sector, with economic items, measures and actions that had never been put on the table before, and will continue to be”.
Regarding the situation of the sector, Javier Parrilla recalls that, between 2014 and 2019, the island’s cattle herd fell by more than 16 percent and that almost a third of cattle farms disappeared.
Specifically, the heads of goats fell by 16 percent, those of sheep by 11 percent, those of pigs by 20 percent and those of cattle by 11 percent, collects a note from the Cabildo.
However, the measures proposed since the beginning of the mandate, focused on acting on production costs, have managed to stop the fall in the number of farms and that the cattle herd on the island has increased by 9.5 percent, concludes the counselor.
