"The moment the conditioning works of the industrial zone of Tinajo are finished, we will make a cheese factory for the ranchers and a place for the farmers." This is the commitment assumed this Tuesday by the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, during his intervention in the radio program Buenos Días Lanzarote, where he was forceful to guarantee that it will be his City Council that lays the foundations so that the many problems that occur now will not be repeated in the future.
It is obvious that the primary sector is not going through its best moment at present or in recent years -perhaps too many-. Even in a time when an excellent grape harvest is being collected, everything is problems. When there is little production because there is little production, and when there is a lot of production because there is a lot of production. All in order to make good the saying that it never rains to everyone's liking. But in the end, the most fragile link in the chain, the farmer, is the one who pays the piper and gets the least income from his sacrifice.
In recent years there have also been two very specific sectors of the island's agriculture, perhaps the only two that continue to give some money to the men and women of the countryside, which have focused the most discussions: the vineyard and the livestock. The first, the grape, due to the lack of attention paid to a product that also serves as few to preserve the most unique landscape of the Island; the second, because there is no room for the milk that is extracted with so much effort from a goat herd in hopeful progression, milk that in the end has to be transported to Fuerteventura.
One of the public officials who has been most involved in this matter has been the mayor of Tinajo, who some time ago, even when it was taken for granted that the Agroindustrial Complex of Teguise was going to be launched again, pledged to create a cheese factory that would put an end to so much madness. Now his commitment goes further: not only is he sure that the institution he presides over will find the means to launch the cheese factory, but he believes he is in a position to try to ensure that the rest of the products, among which the grape stands out, also find shelter under facilities that will be created in the industrial zone that is being developed at this time. "As soon as the Cabildo finds a solution for the industrial zone, I will find a solution for my ranchers and my farmers," he said in this regard. "Having a legalized industrial zone with all the conditions, we can receive subsidies up to 75 percent to create the infrastructure, and it is a pity that this money is lost. It is regrettable and painful that on an island like Lanzarote milk has to be taken to Fuerteventura because there is no cheese factory," he stressed quite annoyed.
