With unusually summery temperatures for the end of March, the municipality of The rosary held this Saturday one of the main events among those included in the Traditions Day. This meeting celebrated its eighth edition after it could not be held for the last two years due to limitations due to the pandemic.
A total ofand 42 cattle They participated at noon in the Livestock Fair located next to the Post Office building, in the heart of the municipality. Up to the place, and according to the organizers, ranchers from various municipalities moved. The lagoonTacoronte and Tegueste These were some of the towns from which the owners of the impressive cows and bulls from the Rosario show traveled.
The act served to honor two important people for the sector. On the one hand, Manuel Hilario Diazknown as No no, was recognized for an “entire life dedicated to cattle raising and participating in the pilgrimages of El Rosario and the entire Island.” At 82 years old, he demonstrated his expertise on threshing. He also received a special trophy, in the form of the mythical and unmistakable hope blanket, Orlando Maximo Sanchez. Known as Máximo, the recognition came to him in gratitude for his usual collaboration in organizing the local pilgrimage “thus helping to preserve livestock traditions.”
Beyond its vocation as an instrument for the recovery and promotion of traditions, this type of meeting allows farmers to overcome the harsh economic conditions they are having to face. Thanks to what they earn from participating in fairs and pilgrimages, the owners of these impressive animals, which weigh an average of 800 kilos, can continue to feed them. Feed, for example, has become so expensive that in a few months it has doubled its cost. «If before it was six euros, now it is over eleven euros. Some have had to remove cattle to be able to move on, “explained the organization of the meeting, Antony gonzalezwho valued the support of the El Rosario City Council.
Mayor, scholastic gil, insisted on the need to continue promoting a way of life that is at the origin of “our way of being”. “It’s sad that boys and girls whose grandparents, until very recently, worked in agriculture hardly know where their milk comes from,” he said. He also recalled the danger posed by those abandoned crop fields near the houses. Especially with the arrival of summer. «We have a blessed land and we must take care of it; nature is also taken care of with agriculture and livestock », she settled.
The Councilor for Culture also attended, Yeray Gutierrezwho recalled that the activities linked to the Eighth Day of Traditions would continue in the afternoon with the show The Saltworks, which can be seen in the House of Culture. This Sunday, March 26, starting at 12:00 p.m. and in the Plaza del Adelantado, there will be a free concert of The gofions that the Esperancero singer will open Ricardo Alonso.
