SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has approved the collaboration agreement with the Insular Slaughterhouse (MIT) for the suspension, for one year, of the payment of fees and transport costs, ordering the payment of 1,132,779 euros.
The Island Councilor for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Javier Parrilla, pointed out that this procedure “of great legal and administrative difficulty that will make it possible, with all the guarantees, for Tenerife’s livestock to have a lower cost in its production process” has been completed.
In this sense, Javier Parrilla indicated that they go “to the base of costs, facilitating the impulse and growth of business confidence, maintaining calm in consumption and strengthening the future productivity of the sector”; and he wanted to remember that in order for ranchers and ranchers to benefit from this suspension of rates, they must hold a sales contract for the commercialization of meat within the Food Chain Law.
The island official also stressed that this measure “is part of the change in the model promoted by this government team, which has redoubled its efforts and has been and will continue to be at the side of the sector, with economic items, measures and actions that have never before they had been put on the table”.
In this regard, Parrilla recalled that during the term of the previous government team (from 2014 to 2019) the island’s cattle herd fell by more than 16 percent and that almost a third of cattle farms disappeared. Specifically, the heads of goats fell by 16 percent, those of sheep by 13 percent, those of pigs by 20 percent and those of cattle by 11 percent.
“However, thanks to the measures proposed since the beginning of the mandate, focused on acting on production costs (such as sanitary or livestock feeding), we have managed to stop the fall in the number of farms and that the cattle herd of the island has increased by 9.5 percent. We will continue in this line of work, guaranteeing the extension of the period of suspension of slaughterhouse rates, at least one more year after the end of the one that now begins. We have approved it thus in the plenary commission this Monday,” he said.
Individually, goats have increased by 9.6 percent compared to 2019, sheep by 3.6 percent, pigs by 7.3 percent and bovines by 32 percent.
SUPPORT FOR LIVESTOCK
On the other hand, Javier Parrilla stressed that the Cabildo has invested more than 6 million euros in Tenerife’s livestock in two years. “In other words, in the last two years we have captured and executed more budget volume than the previous government group in its four years in office,” he added.
The island official also stressed that the Island Corporation will continue to support the livestock sector, “with a budget proposal of 4,222,933 euros just for the promotion of livestock”, which represents an increase of 35 percent compared to 2022. , and 2,839,779 euros to reduce costs through the slaughterhouse, “with a total that will exceed 7 million,” he concluded.
