SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 23 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Noble Hall of the Cabildo of Tenerife hosted the ‘AgroJoven 2024’ awards ceremony this Monday afternoon with the presence of the president, Rosa Dávila, and the Primary Sector counselor, Valentín González Évora.
The awards are a recognition that, since 2011, the Cabildo of Tenerife has given to business projects linked to the rural environment of the island, that are promoted by young people and that are related to agricultural or livestock activity on the island.
During the event, the president valued young people as “the driving force of innovation and sustainability in agriculture”, since “with their energy and creativity they are resources that must be recognized and promoted to guarantee the maintenance of the sector.”
The objective of this initiative focuses on promoting generational change and the incorporation of new profiles into the agricultural sector, valuing the primary sector and rural areas as professional alternatives, professionalizing the sector and contributing to breaking down stereotypes about the primary sector and rural areas. .
The counselor of the Primary Sector, Valentín González, also stated that “with this event, we intend to recognize the initiative, effort and work of the young people who join this economic sector.”
The first prize for business initiative has gone to Mieles de Abona (Adasat Peña Dorta) whose main activity of the company is the production and marketing of selected high-quality honey, using transhumant management of the hives.
The second prize went to Finca Las Abiertas (Diego Ernesto de la Rosa Falcón). agricultural company dedicated mainly to the cultivation of potatoes, and in a complementary way to wheat, while the third was destined for a poultry farm with ecological management (Elia González Sánchez).
Likewise, the best business idea was awarded to the comprehensive cassava processor in the Canary Islands by Andrea Padrón Arias, the planting of an innovative crop for the primary sector of the island classified as subtropical, and the Ágave brandy distillery by Enrique de la Rosa García.
