SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The General Directorate of Agriculture of the Agriculture Commission has positively valued the proposal of the Government of the Canary Islands for the agrarian recovery of La Palma presented today by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Sovereignty of the regional Executive, Narvay Quintero, in Brussels to the responsible for the Community Program to Support Agricultural Productions in the Canary Islands (POSEI).
During the meeting with the head of the Unit responsible for POSEI, Margaret Bateson-Missen, and her team, the head of the Department presented a chronology of the reconstruction of agricultural farms and explained that it is a model with several temporalities that allows shortening times and is aimed at trying to recover the largest possible cultivation area of banana farms and other productions.
Likewise, he commented that the beneficiaries of aid from measure 5.2 of the Rural Development Program (PDR) whose plots are half-buried on the edges of the flows are already working on the recovery of these, which add up to a total of 48 hectares.
The members of the General Directorate of Agriculture of the Agriculture Commission described the model of the Canary Islands Executive as “dynamic” and “logical” with a view to maintaining this aid and promised to provide a response in this regard soon.
Quintero, who was accompanied by the Deputy Minister of the Primary Sector, Eduardo García, the Deputy Minister of Economic and Social Recovery of La Palma, Pedro Ángel Afonso, and technicians from the Ministry of Agriculture, explained that this “road map” for the reconstruction in Territorial, urban and agrarian matters are reflected in an economic commitment of the regional government for the next budget years and also of the State.
“We are satisfied with the reception of the proposed approach and the sensitivity they have shown to the situation of palm producers,” commented the member of the Canary Islands Executive.
“We have invited you to visit the island of La Palma so that you can learn in situ the situation of the farmers and our purpose of allowing them to recover the way of life they had before the eruption, the one that their grandparents, their parents had, and that they wanted for their children,” he added.