After two unsuccessful tenders, the Council for Food Sovereignty of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria has started delivering avocado producers the trees they lost to the 2019 fires.
In 2020, the Cabildo awarded the tender in which there were approximately 556 requests from farmers to replace the stone and pip fruit trees burned by the fire. Those trees were delivered in 2021. Meanwhile, the tender for tropical fruit trees was unsuccessful.
The next tender procedure opened in 2021 for the supply of avocado trees, which can only be contracted with nurseries in the Canary Islands for phytosanitary reasons, was also unsuccessful.
So far, the Cabildo has been able to buy 825 of the 1,200 avocado trees that were lost in the fires two and a half years ago from nurseries in Tenerife and La Palma. The entity has already started delivering the trees to the 26 farmers most affected by the fire. The rest of the 149 farmers who lost their avocado trees will be given the rest of the units as the Cabildo obtains them in the market.
12,700 euro were allocated to buy the 825 avocado trees acquired so far. 200 of these trees are of the Fuerte variety, 500 of the Hass variety, and the remaining 125 are of the Pinkerton variety.
Source: canarias7.es
