The Socialist Party (PSOE) of Teguise achieved the approval in the ordinary plenary session of this month of September of its motion to recover the traditional cultivation of cochineal in Guatiza and Mala. In this sense, the socialist councilor Jenifer Galán stated: "Cochineal is part of our history, landscape and identity, and we cannot allow it to disappear, nor the state of many of its farms."
The socialist proposal passed unanimously by the entire plenary with a small modification: to urge the Cabildo of Lanzarote to allocate employment plans and resources to the recovery of farms linked to this centuries-old crop.
Galán insisted that the plague of the Mexican cochineal and the lack of generational change "have put at risk more than 200 years of tradition and a landscape that is a hallmark of Lanzarote."
The socialist initiative contemplates three axes: allocating employment plans to the recovery of farms, enabling specific economic items for the primary sector that study and promote cochineal, and promoting participatory projects in the towns of Guatiza and Mala.
"The recovery of cochineal is not only an economic issue, but also of identity, landscape and sustainability. It is betting on our own history, on a trait that makes us unique and different from other places," Galán stressed.
Finally, the Socialist Group points out that they "will remain vigilant so that the agreement approved in the plenary session has continuity in the Cabildo and becomes concrete actions that help revitalize an agricultural activity that has generated admiration in residents and visitors throughout the times."
