The Experimental Agricultural Farm of the Cabildo of Lanzarote is one of the 12 official breeders that, attached to the National Association of Black Pig, exist in Lanzarote. The Farm, dependent on the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, headed by Nereida Pérez, has been making an effort for more than a year to recover a native breed and consolidate a new productive alternative on the island".
Hence the interest projected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock in training farmers who are committed to raising the Canarian black pig in Lanzarote, including the Island Council itself, which "currently has about ten black pigs as a result of the project to recover this breed. A project that began in 2008 and sought to diversify the sector, and help with training and guidance to the many farmers who were willing to raise this type of pig, about to disappear from the islands", explains the councillor.
A native breed in danger
The Canarian black pig is a native breed of the archipelago that is included in the Official Catalogue of Livestock Breeds of Spain, with the category of Special Protection, given its reduced number of specimens, in 1997. Thanks to the initiatives of some local administrations and the efforts of farmers who have opted for this breeding, the increase in the number of specimens of black pigs in the islands has been considerable in recent years.
That is why the Experimental Farm of the Cabildo hosts the II Technical-Practical Conference on the Canarian black pig in Lanzarote. Organised by the National Association of Breeders of Black Pig of the Canary Islands and with the collaboration of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Cabildo. The course is aimed at the approximately 12 farmers on the island who are associated with that entity and who have a livestock of more than 100 specimens, as well as the rest of the sector.
II Technical-Practical Conference in Lanzarote
The Conference begins on Thursday 12th and will end on Saturday 14th November, structured in two blocks with their theoretical and practical aspects. After the opening of the course, the teaching staff, composed of Bernardino Domínguez Castiñeiras, veterinarian and technician of INORDE (Diputación de Orense), Rafael Riera Cillanueva, graduate in Veterinary Medicine and technician of the Association of Breeders of Canarian Pig, Aldo Gutiérrez, veterinarian and technician of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and Rafael Ginés, doctor in veterinary medicine and professor of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the ULPGC, will divide the course into the following presentations:
-Contamination of groundwater. Management of livestock waste.
-Study of the carcass, characterisation of the meat, tasting panel, tasting of Canarian black pig meat.
-Management of the genealogical book, studies carried out by the association: selection, insemination?
-Visits to several farms to check the management of waste produced by pigs.
