Lanzarote's winegrowers will receive 340,000 euros in compensation from agricultural insurance to compensate for the damage caused by drought and heatstroke during the last harvest.
This was announced by Agroseguro, the Spanish Association of Combined Agricultural Insurance Entities, which has announced that it will pay a total of 403,000 euros in compensation to wine grape producers in the Canary Islands in the coming days, most of which will come to Lanzarote.
According to them, the island has been the most affected, concentrating 80% of the incidents. "Everyone who has their farms insured will receive money from the insurance companies for the very bad harvest this year," confirmed the president of the Lanzarote Regulatory Council, Víctor Díaz Figueroa.
It should be remembered that Lanzarote closed this year's harvest with 1.3 million kilos of grapes, less than half of the previous year. A figure that is only above that of 2016, which was the lowest harvest, in which only 695,571 kilos of grapes were collected.
The total area affected by drought in the Canary Islands according to Agroseguro has reached 410 hectares, corresponding to some 2,000 different plots. Although Lanzarote is the island with the greatest impact (330 hectares and 922 plots), the damage also extends, to a lesser extent, to La Palma, Tenerife and Gran Canaria.