The Governing Council of the Cabildo of Lanzarote approved this Monday the call for subsidies for the feeding of breeding animals (sheep-goat), annuity 2025, with an investment of 500,000 euros.
The Institution chaired by Oswaldo Betancort, also Councilor of the Livestock and Agriculture Area, will once again subsidize the breeding of thousands of goats and sheep born during the past year on livestock farms in Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
Oswaldo Betancort has highlighted the importance of these aids for the productivity of the island's livestock sector. “With this call, we continue to bet on the sustainability of the primary sector and generational change in our farms. Feeding breeding animals is an economic challenge for farmers; and from the Cabildo we want to guarantee that they can maintain and expand their herds without the cost of supplies being an insurmountable barrier,” he stated.
Last year, the aid from the Livestock Area of the Cabildo of Lanzarote for breeding was used to feed 5,700 animals, benefiting about fifty farmers.
Details of the call
The subsidy approved by the Governing Council is part of the 2023-2025 Strategic Subsidy Plan and is aimed at livestock farms in Lanzarote that have a sheep-goat census equal to or greater than 5 Livestock Units (LU). Up to a maximum of 150 euros will be financed for each female born in 2024 and registered in the Individual Animal Identification Registry (RIIA), which is undergoing the breeding process.
The concession procedure will be under a non-competitive regime, and applications may be submitted within 30 calendar days from the publication of the call in the Official Gazette of the Province of Las Palmas.
Finally, President Oswaldo Betancort recalled that the work of the current island government group to strengthen the primary sector is not only deployed with this and other calls for subsidies that the Institution will launch, “but is also observed in the updating of the Island Plan for Territorial Planning (PIOT), in whose draft, and for the first time in history, the primary sector will have a real expansion of agricultural and livestock land that triples the surface compared to the current plan,” he detailed.
