The ranchers and ranchers of Tenerife They are exempt from paying taxes and transportation costs for the use of the Insular Slaughterhouse since last January 1. This was announced yesterday by the president of the Cabildo. Pedro Martín stressed “the culmination of a procedure of great legal and administrative difficulty that will allow livestock in Tenerife to have a lower cost in its production process.” The suspension of tariffs for one year will mean an estimated saving of 1.1 million euros for the sector.
The insular government of PSOE and citizens It has also approved in a plenary committee that the suspension of rates be extended for at least one more year, “because we know that the situation in the sector is complicated and that the current scenario, with a war in Ukraine and inflation that affects the economies from all over Europe, obliges us to implement extraordinary measures and procedures that contribute to reducing uncertainty”, explained Pedro Martín.
The insular Councilor for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Javier Parrilla, for his part, stressed that this measure “will facilitate the promotion and growth of business confidence, strengthening the future productivity of the sector.” Parrilla also recalled that in order for ranchers to benefit from this suspension of rates, they must have a sales contract for the marketing of meat within the Food Chain Law.
The insular person in charge of the primary sector of Tenerife emphasizes that “since the beginning of the mandate this Corporation has been by the side of the sector, with economic items, measures and actions that had never been put on the table before, and we will continue to be so”. Regarding the situation of the sector, Javier Parrilla recalls that between 2014 and 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 11 percent, those of pigs by 20 percent and those of cattle by 11 percent.
However, the measures proposed since the beginning of the mandate, focused on acting on production costs, have managed to stop the fall in the number of farms and that the cattle herd on the island has increased by 9.5 percent, The counselor concludes.
