The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Luis Planas, visited the municipality of Tinajo this past Thursday after the signing of the agreement between the Ministry and the State Mercantile Society of Agricultural Infrastructures, SA (SEIASA) by which the financing for the irrigation of Tinajo and Teguise is recovered.
The execution period is scheduled for December 2026, although with the Minister's commitment that it will be completed in the summer of that same year. The Minister was accompanied on the visit to Tinajo by: Francisco Rodríguez Mulero, President of SEIASA; the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort; the Minister of Water, Domingo Cejas; as well as Augusto Jesús Hernández González, general director of Agriculture of the Government of the Canary Islands; Anselmo Pestana, Government delegate in the Canary Islands; and Pedro Viera Espinosa, insular director of the General State Administration in Lanzarote.
For the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, it is "excellent news, finally the start of this project as important as the solution for the irrigation of Tinajo, one of the most important in the recent history of Tinajo, is becoming a reality. I want to thank the Minister and the rest of the leaders for visiting Tinajo. We all attended the signing at the Government Delegation and, later, we came to Tinajo where the Minister showed me that he is a very close and simple person, it is noticeable that he has quite extensive knowledge of the sector."
"I have been fighting for eleven years for this project, which is so important for our municipality, to go ahead," confirms Machín. "After a small paralysis in recent months for various reasons, now the project is confirmed with the visit of the Minister. The project has also been updated and has gone from costing 14 million euros to having a cost of 24.4 million euros. It is news for our primary sector that will redound to the benefit of the municipality of Tinajo and part of Teguise."
Machín confirms that, "after yesterday's visit, the addendum was already signed and the Island Council of Lanzarote has to assume the amount that corresponds to it, something more than four million euros, which we hope will all be available by the end of April. Yesterday we visited El Cuchillo, where the small regulating deposit is located, and Marcos, a young entrepreneurial farmer from the El Cuchillo area."
Finally, the mayor of Tinajero adds that "the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, explained to the Minister how Tinajo renounced the tourist development and the Partial Plan of La Santa. He loved the idea and made himself fully available to us. For me this is a very happy day because it is very important for Tinajo. I want to congratulate the minister for his dedication and I hope that there will be no more bumps in the road, that the work will start as soon as possible because it is vital for the primary sector of Tinajo", concludes Jesús Machín.