The Cabildo of Tenerife will approve the Potato Island Plan in the first months of 2024. The document will be the result of a participatory process that will serve to collect contributions from other public entities, agricultural organizations, cooperatives and political parties.
The Primary Sector Minister, Valentín González, explains that the new document will be valid between 2024 and 2029, and aims to “promote and boost the potato sector in Tenerife.”
The Plan seeks to “establish a framework of actions that allow restructuring the potato sector on the island in the field of production and marketing, providing stability and improving the competitiveness of the sector, in addition to increasing the rate of self-sufficiency.”
González highlights that “the document proposes a series of actions, which we will promote from the Cabildo, which revolve around different axes, such as improving competitiveness, new marketing strategies, promoting the social economy, multiplying potatoes. healthy, agrosystems and biodiversity and self-sufficiency.”
In this way, the Plan “proposes actions aimed at reducing production costs, increasing yield and crop rotation, increasing traceability control, improving commercial management, conserving the agricultural biodiversity of the local potato and advancing in the implementation of new technologies to control the Guatemalan moth and improve irrigation, its efficiency, seeking greater access to quality water in the midlands of the island,” the Island Council detailed in a statement.
