Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE)
To do this, the regional government has to issue an order whose content must be agreed with the agrarian organizations, something that the counselor hopes will be achieved this Tuesday during a meeting in which Alicia Vanoostende presents the plan of actions to control the food chain in the islands for this year.
Before the meeting, the counselor commented that it is an “ambitious” plan in which there are general monitoring programs for fruit and vegetable products, the price of milk, the index and the processing of complaints.
Alicia Vanoostende has assured that in the Canary Islands there has been a lot of progress in the food chain law in matters as “important” as the production cost calculations in the price observatory, and the export and import dashboards, data that, has added, they are open on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture.
All these data allow business decisions to be made, since it is possible to know the prices at origin and destination, as well as the quantities that are imported and exported in the Canary Islands of all fruit and vegetable products, as well as meat and fish.
Data that will be constantly updated and therefore give a reflection of the reality of the agricultural sector, has pointed out Alicia Vanoostende.
The counselor explained that in her department they continue to work with the regulations that describe the control body of the food chain law, which is the Vice-Ministry of the Primary Sector.
He has commented that it is one of the limitations to apply the law and the counselor believes that the brief will have the report of the Consultative Council of the Canary Islands, which is the “last” step for the regional government to approve the regulation that allows it to have full powers in the enforcement of the food chain law.
In this decree, the small control plan of last year will go to a “more ambitious” one, the counselor has indicated, who has pointed out that at the meeting on Tuesday she will also present the expansion of the products of the price control observatory, to the include meat and fish, which will allow prices to be monitored both at origin and destination.
Something important at a time of inflation, recalled Alicia Vanoostende, who stressed that it is possible to know the prices paid to producers, also to wholesalers and consumers, for all fresh products in the primary sector. EFE
