SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 28 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary Islands, Alicia Vanoostende, has highlighted the arrival of 2.7 million euros of state funds to the producers of cattle, goat and sheep milk on the islands to mitigate the consequences of the increase of the costs of animal feed and raw materials, as well as the effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Alicia Vanoostende valued the importance of almost 600 farms in the Archipelago “being able to access an injection of essential liquidity for a sector that is directly suffering the effects of this international situation and that will make it possible to cushion the impact of a situation that is significant economic viability of many livestock farms”.
In this line, the head of Agriculture pointed out that these aids “are added to the actions promoted by the regional department, such as the payment in January of direct aid of 7.6 million to the more than a thousand owners of affected livestock farms. due to the covid health crisis, 1.2 million to cheese dairies or the processing of direct aid valued at 8 million euros to compensate for the extra cost of the price of animal feed.
“The commitment of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Ministry is to accompany the sector and seek solutions to all these problems, and that is what we are doing to guarantee the continuity of livestock activity,” he said.
The specific aid for milk producers is intended to compensate for the increase in production costs in one of the most affected activities in the primary sector due to the increase in the price of electricity, feed for animal feed and fuel, derived from the situation created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
These State aids valued at 169 million euros are distributed in 124 million to cow’s milk producers, 32.3 million to sheep’s milk and 12.7 million to goat’s milk producers.
