A farmer from Lanzarote has denounced to La Voz the "persecution" that, in her opinion, this trade is experiencing on the island, due to the files that the Island Council, through its Environment area, has opened in relation to the law of rustic land.
The professional explains that for some months now they have been receiving sanctions for non-compliance with the regulations that are putting everyone "in the same bag", when there are farmers who only dedicate themselves "to working to live".
"They complain that the primary sector is abandoned, but it is normal. They don't give us facilities to perpetuate it", she says.
Tool sheds, water tanks, caravans and walls are prohibited
The current regulations include several prohibitions for farms of less than 10,000 hectares of land, classified as rustic land.
Among them is the prohibition of making tool sheds, in order to "prevent people from using them as vacation rentals". In this regard, the farmer indicates that "there are only a few who do this, but we all pay", and defends that the authorities should be more lax.
"When it's sunny it's unbearable to work without a room to sit in the shade to drink some water", she explains.
Precisely, water is another problem. The complainant comments that they have also received sanctions for having irrigation tanks, a fact that she indicates she does not understand knowing "the problem that exists on the island with this issue, where they cut off the water every two by three".
Along with this, she also points out that fines are arriving for the use of caravans and the construction of stone walls.
"We need solutions"
Although she is aware that "the administration is doing its job", the farmer requests that they be given some solution.
"The only option they give us is to buy more land, but I dedicate myself to organic farming and I cannot afford it", she criticizes.
Based on this, she advances that there will be fewer and fewer who continue this discipline on the island, since "there are more problems than facilities", she concludes.
