The Department of Environment and Agriculture of the Tacoronte City Council has created three new subsidies valued at 110,000 euros with the aim of promoting the primary sector of the municipality and the actions regarding energy transition. The area directed by the councilor Carmela Díaz Vilela (SSP) intends to reinforce the use of clean energy and agroecology, through some pioneering subsidies that, for the first time, will reach the Farmer’s Market, the organic farming stalls in the market municipality and the Local Energy Community of Tacoronte, the first of Tenerife and second of Canary Islands.
Díaz Vilela points out that this first direct municipal aid received by the Farmer’s Market in its more than four decades of existence “can also be used for training, consumables and space improvements, constituting a support that is feasible thanks to its inclusion in the Subsidy Plan. Something that had not happened until now, because it simply had not occurred to anyone, since the subsidies came from other administrations, but not directly ».
The councilor indicated that “this type of aid also involves support for the primary sector and the zero kilometer product, because farmers are helped in direct sales. This is a necessary support, which translates into 50,000 euros that will go directly to the activity in our field in times of difficulty.
Also for this sector, a 10,000 euro subsidy has been awarded to the farmers who set up their organic farming stall every week in the Municipal Market. «This is the first time they have received this aid, since our intention is to promote this market and help the ecological sector, in which two great concepts come together, which involve a fight against climate change and adaptation to these circumstances» .
The Tacorontera councilor emphasizes that these contributions “seek to promote the consumption of local production and agroecological production, whose producers will be able to allocate this aid to the improvement of space, training, material and everything else they deem appropriate.” In total, the primary sector has received this year 60,000 euros of local funds to boost its activity.
Energy Community
The third line of aid launched for the first time by the Tacoronte City Council is the one that has been granted to the Local Energy Community, “which already has a group engine consolidated, in which the public is the one that assumes the role of the energy transition”. The subsidy that this proposal will receive is 50,000 euros, “which will give a very powerful boost that will consolidate the Energy Community, which is already made up of 20 partners, to which many more will be added as technological projects come out due to the benefits that its application will entail.
Thanks to this aid, this community will be able to access essential aspects such as having a store or financing the hiring of personnel to help in its management and permanent assistance, information campaigns or training courses, also allowing the drafting of new projects and the processing of grants.
Carmela Díaz Vilela announced that “as they are newly created grants, they are initiatives that can be maintained over time, since they have also had the necessary support of the municipal plenary session.”
