Nueva Canarias (NC) has presented a series of "real and executable" measures to achieve the "definitive take-off" of the primary sector in Teguise, after holding meetings with farmers, ranchers, and fishermen.
The Canarian candidate for the Teguise City Council, Fernando Jiménez, has indicated that through these meetings they are "learning firsthand" the needs and demands of the sector, a fact that has led his formation to develop "fundamental issues" for farmers, such as improvements in water supply, in agricultural water treatment plants, the pipeline through jable, the creation of a small permanent supply market, along with others related to forage or alfalfa cultivation.
"We have realized that the sector, apart from subsidies, requires efficient services from the administrations and, above all, a correct supply of agricultural water and for the livestock sector, and that this supply is given correctly and regularly, with economic production costs,” explains the NC politician.
Likewise, Jiménez has described as "vital" being able to have competitive prices in fuel consumption to adequately manage their operations.
Aid for forage prices
In this line, the candidate for mayor has pointed out that ranchers are "concerned" about the price of forage for their animals and the costs of feed for them: "They are always in the same dilemma, with the quality-price binomial... You cannot be producing in the primary sector with costs that make it unproductive."
As a solution, he highlighted that the Ministry of Finance, Budgets and European Affairs of the Government of the Canary Islands, led by the Canarian Vice President, Román Rodríguez (also president of NC) has distributed, in 2022, aid worth 25 million euros among Canarian ranchers affected by the increase in animal feed costs.
Associationism and the democratization of the Mountain
Another of the most relevant proposals that Nueva Canarias raises for Teguise in relation to this primary sector is the so-called "democratization of the Mountain", an initiative that foresees that municipal farms can be facilitated for their exploitation.
On this, Jiménez indicates that it is necessary to bring "transparency to the opacity" that exists in the awards of the mountain, of the cultivation land owned by the city council, on which there is no inventory or data on what criteria have been awarded.
Likewise, the candidate has stated that he does not forget the "old demands of producers and consumers", such as the Supply Market: "We could start with the proposal of a modest market in the town of Teguise itself, which would start discreetly but regularly and would be permanent."
Finally, the Canarians consider it also necessary to promote collective initiatives oriented towards associationism, such as the definitive creation of a cooperative of young farmers after various frustrated attempts in the municipality and, in general, in the area of Lanzarote.
