Today, Monday, June 29, the Ministry of Agriculture has paid the second payment of 71 million euros from POSEI for bananas
The Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary Islands makes the payment of 71 million euros of aid from the Community Program to Support Agricultural Productions of the Canary Islands (POSEI) corresponding to the 2019 campaign to banana producers with Protected Geographical Indication (PGI).
In this way, the payment of the 141.1 million euros assigned to the financial sheet of the “Aid for PGI banana producers”, included in measure II of the Posei financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF), is completed. Some 7,700 banana producers in the archipelago will access this aid through the six Banana Producer Organizations (OPP).
The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Alicia Vanoostende, explains that this subsidy aims to “maintain the cultivation of banana production on the islands, reinforcing its structure through producer organizations that promote a quality, differentiated product, committed to the environment, that creates landscape and that is competitive.
Likewise, the head of Agriculture highlights "the complexity of the processing of said aid as a consequence of both the state of alarm and the change of personnel that has occurred in these months, for which she appreciates the commitment and great work carried out by the workers of the Ministry."
