The Council of Tenerife contributes 40,000 euros to the International Potato Center of Peru to investigate the Guatemalan potato moth, the plague that has plagued the Tenerife countryside for years and is a serious threat to tuber production. The objective of this grant is to promote a detailed analysis project to eradicate the Tecia solanivora that affects the production of Tenerife potatoes.
The Governing Council approved this collaboration agreement between the Foreign Action area and the General Directorate of the institution located in Lima with the aim of collaborating to promote research and the generation of technologies, in accordance with the environment. In this sense, joint actions related to the professionalization of the sector aimed at supporting the conservation of the biodiversity of potatoes and sweet potatoes in Tenerife will be promoted.
The fight against the Guatemalan moth is considered of public utility since it is a quarantine pest in Europe, and its presence can cause significant losses in the crop and affect its exports. This is the calamity with the greatest economic impact for potato cultivation in Central and South America. Originally from Guatemala, it has spread or been introduced to other countries.
The Governing Council also approved the participation of the Cabildo de Tenerife in the future consortium made up of four countries (Romania, Italy, Ireland and Spain), with the aim of carrying out a mock volcanic risk advisory mission on the island. This project will allow the Island Corporation to lead a field exercise for the management of the emergency, as well as to evaluate possible improvements in the procedures of the current Island Action Plan against the Volcanic Risk of Tenerife (PAIV), the main tool to give an adequate response. to the incidents that are registered.
First plenary session on Thursday 27
The Cabildo de Tenerife begins to take shape regarding the necessary normality of a new mandate (2023-2027), in the midst of a logical transition period between one and the other. In this sense it is possible to understand the celebration of the first ordinary plenary session. It will be on Thursday the 27th, exceptionally, since the idea is to hold the sessions on the last Friday of each month as is traditional.
New island director of Social Action
The Governing Council approved yesterday the appointment of Yolanda Baumgartner Hernández as Island Director of Social Action to strengthen the area directed by the popular Águeda Fumero and also incorporates Inclusion and Volunteering. Baumgartner was head of the Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Sub-delegation of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, as well as deputy secretary of social policy of the insular PP. She was ranked 13th on the list of Manuel Dominguez to the Cabildo in 2011. This appointment is added to the six of Canarian Coalition and that of Alicia Concepción Leirachá last week, also at the request of the PP, to occupy the area of Strategic Projects, proposed by the popular ones although within the Presidency that she occupies directly Rosa Davila. Concepción, with a degree in Law, was head of the Urban Planning Disciplinary Service of the Santa Cruz City Council, as well as head of the Administrative Service of Territorial Policy of the Cabildo de Tenerife. | JDM
