Coalición Canaria wants to boost the agricultural sector. The candidate of the nationalist group for mayor of Haría, Víctor Robayna, proposed this Thursday the creation of the first Master Plan for the Primary Sector in the municipality. “It will serve as a roadmap to provide a solution to a sector that has to become our second economic pillar,” he said in a statement.
The Coalición Canaria candidate insists on carrying out a diagnosis of the problems that affect agriculture, livestock and fishing on the north of the island on a daily basis. In this way, to be able to promote concrete actions that allow the local product to recover the place "that it should never have lost".
“We are seeing, for example, how the agricultural product disappears that for so long has marked the history in our municipality and that is who gives name and surnames to our landscape,” says Robayna, who stresses that the real problems of the entire primary sector must be addressed. Among them, water scarcity is undoubtedly one of the main concerns.
“Without putting the means we cannot move forward. We have to get the water to reach all the farms and, for this, we are going to continue demanding the necessary investments to provide irrigation to the different agricultural and livestock areas. As well as studying the creation of a Desalination Plant in the northern area,” says the CC candidate.
Another of the proposals put forward by the northern nationalists is the approval of a new PIOT, and the implementation of the modification of the General Plan of Haría, to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers in the municipality.
“The modification of the General Plan would allow, among other things, the construction of tool sheds and cisterns in very specific places. A demand that both farmers and ranchers have conveyed to us,” says Robayna.
In this sense, the nationalist party claims the commitment to the creation of new cooperatives, associations and guilds, as the best option to integrate and strengthen the primary sector; as well as working on the projection of the local product, kilometer zero and organic agriculture of the municipality through its presence in markets and fairs, but without losing sight of the need to promote the study for the search for alternative products that supplant others with little output, are other objectives to be achieved by the CC candidate, in favor of the primary sector.
“We must open the range to diversity and move towards food sovereignty,” he says, and adds that to achieve this, the opening of an office dedicated to the primary sector is essential “that gives priority to resources, helps manage the different subsidies and facilitates communication with other administrations.”