The Plenary of the Cabildo of Lanzarote approved this Monday unanimously the implementation of a line of subsidies for an amount of 1.9 million euros that will be allocated "urgently" to the island's livestock sector.
The Councilor for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the First Island Institution, Andrés Stinga, explained that these aids “will contribute to facing the rise in prices of transport, raw materials and fuel that the sector is suffering, aggravated after the invasion of Ukraine.”
The president of the First Island Institution, María Dolores Corujo, for her part, pledged “to put all the mechanisms at our disposal and focus our efforts on speeding up the processing and collection of aid aimed at alleviating the impact that the increase in operating costs is generating in the sector.”
Corujo and Stinga expressed their confidence that “these subsidies, and the initiatives announced to us last week by the Minister of Agriculture of the Government of the Canary Islands, Alicia Vanoostende, will contribute to restoring stability to a sector that is fundamental to the island's productive fabric.”
The aid approved by the Plenary is included in the Strategic Plan prepared by the Cabildo of Lanzarote through a working commission that has the participation of agents from the sector.
