Ruth Acosta highlights the fact of “intensifying technical and logistical assistance to guarantee the start-up of the Network, as well as its adequate and correct operation.” For this, the project will have specific personnel who will be procured by the Cabildo.
The initiative contemplates carrying out a study of the demand for local products in the agricultural markets of Tenerife in parallel. In addition to implementing the annual concession, once constituted with legal personality, of the aid of the Network. The intention is to contribute to the increase of competitiveness and increase the added value of products originated and processed on the Island, and where appropriate, the improvement of facilities.
The counselor states: “The main objective of this motion is that the markets, as different and diverse entities, can cooperate to achieve common objectives.” Among them would be the enhancement of the local product and the people who produce it, the promotion of short marketing circuits and the scope of food sovereignty. Among the advantages of this entity would be to be able to play «a basic role when it comes to promoting joint initiatives to promote local products, it will allow sharing financing options for the operation of these markets or being a reference for the exchange of proposals aimed at adapting agriculture and the livestock of Tenerife to the challenge of climate change. Although the summary would be to value the role of the producers of our primary sector.
On the other hand, Acosta has also shown the island government “concern about the advertising campaigns that make improper use of our natural spaces; we must prosecute and put an end to these acts.
