The Cabildo of Lanzarote, through the Insular Agricultural Service, has closed this weekend an intense program on the occasion of Field Day, managing to gather at the Tahíche Experimental Agricultural Farm hundreds of students, producers -both professional and non-professional- technicians and the general public, in a new event to strengthen the primary sector of Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
For three days, the venue has become a space for learning and dissemination, where the sector has been the absolute protagonist. The high participation recorded, along with the interest shown by attendees, reflects the sector's support for the work carried out by the island Institution and, especially, by the Experimental Agricultural Farm itself.
The president of the Cabildo de Lanzarote and councillor of Agriculture and Livestock, Oswaldo Betancort, presided on Saturday over the II Meeting with Producers, accompanied by the island vice-president, María Jesús Tovar, in an event that also featured the presence of island councillors and municipal representatives from the island.
Oswaldo Betancort has emphasized that the countryside creates economy and identity; and has underlined the need to value the primary sector and its professionals to ensure a generational handover that, with initiatives of this type, is arriving. “That is my commitment as Minister of Agriculture and Livestock,” he said, before highlighting the importance of the services provided by the Farm, such as the laboratory or the seed bank, which he described as “a great heritage of Lanzarote,” the slaughterhouse, the oil mill, and the nursery, among other spaces. The island president defended the stable and growing nature of job creation in this sector, “with a stable productive fabric linked to products that have no competition; and we must support them strongly,” he asserted.
For her part, the vice president and head of the Project Planning and Coordination Unit, María Jesús Tovar, has recalled how both subsidies and credits destined for the initiatives sponsored by the Insular Agrarian Service have increased during this term, “because we are always by the side of the Experimental Farm,” she noted. María Jesús Tovar clarified that with FDCAN funds important material resources such as tractors and other machinery have been acquired, and that Next Generation EU funds have served to deploy the activities for Field Day 2026, which have been enjoyed by thousands of Lanzarote residents in an initiative that has also had the support of the Tourist Centers of Lanzarote.
The II Meeting with Producers, central axis of Saturday
The Saturday session, which put the final touch to the programming, was marked by the celebration of the II Meeting with Producers, an event that gathered hundreds of people in the facilities of the Farm.
Before opening the debate of the round tables located in the main tent, attendees were able to tour the different spaces of the venue, learning firsthand the intricacies of its operation. Areas such as the oil mill, the slaughterhouse, the nursery, the cultivated farms or the animal area (where this time a display focused on the Canarian camel breed was added) aroused considerable interest among visitors, generating in many a feeling of pleasant surprise both for the excellent condition of the facilities and for the breadth of services offered there.
The Conferences also served to strengthen direct contact between the administration and the professionals of the sector, favoring the exchange of experiences and the analysis of the present and future challenges of the Lanzarotean field.
One of the most notable moments of Saturday was the recognition of young farmers and ranchers of the island, whom the Cabildo presided over by Betancort wanted to highlight for their involvement in the modernization and promotion of the sector. More than a dozen of them received gifts in a gesture from the Institution to reward those who currently fight to sustain primary production, thus consolidating a sustainable agricultural model adapted to new times.
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The activity at the Experimental Agricultural Farm during these days has also had an important informative component. Some of the island's main radio stations broadcast live programs from the venue, contributing to amplify the event's reach.
Likewise, audiovisual pieces focused on real stories of entrepreneurs from the primary sector were disseminated, which reflect the effort and growth capacity that characterizes the Lanzarotean countryside currently.
Remember, finally, that the activities on the occasion of Field Day began on Thursday and Friday morning with the visit of hundreds of schoolchildren from different educational centers on the island, who participated in guided tours and training talks to learn closely about island agriculture and livestock farming, awakening vocations and bringing the sector closer to new generations.
The program continued on Friday afternoon with the celebration of the I Technical Conference, which brought together specialists and professionals around presentations focused on key aspects such as the cheese industry, sweet potato cultivation, the cochineal infestation, the profitability of the vineyard or the black bee, addressing the main challenges of the sector from a technical perspective.
The Cabildo of Lanzarote makes a very positive assessment of this meeting for Field Day 2026, which placed the primary sector as a strategic axis of the island's economic and environmental development.
