The Lanzarote deputy of the Canarian Nationalist Parliamentary Group (CC-PNC-AHÍ), Oswaldo Betancort, has conveyed several issues affecting the primary sector of Lanzarote in the Agriculture Committee held this Friday in the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
Firstly, Betancort lamented the "comparative grievance" between the banana sector and the wine sector, since "the financial conditions and administrative procedures differ greatly depending on who the applicant is."
“I ask you why the banana sector already received the entire amount in a single payment and with a single request on July 2 and why you divide the wine aid into two calls,” Betancort stated during his speech. He also recalled “the arduous task faced by many farmers who are unaware of the use of the electronic headquarters and the necessary tools for its correct use, as well as a digital signature or having the DNI keys activated, for which they have help from the Lanzarote Wine Regulatory Council", to whom he thanked "for their great work" and congratulated for promoting not only the wine sector, but also for its enormous contribution to the landscape and tourist development of the island.”
“Once again we see that the Government of the Canary Islands in general is very far from the needs of the citizens who do not even know them, much less show the necessary sensitivity to understand them,” considered the parliamentarian, inviting the Minister of Agriculture, Alicia Vanoostende, to accept the proposal from her colleague Jesús Machín Tavío and "worry about getting to know the representatives of the sector firsthand, especially those 120 farmers who have been left out because they have not updated the wine registers."
On the other hand, and given the "pressing water problem" in Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort insisted on the "need" to manage the irrigation network in coordination with those affected and with the Island Water Council.
