The Canarian Government in Spain allocates 50,000 euros more to the dragon fruit cultivation viability plan

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 31. (EUROPE PRESS) - Today, Thursday, the Governing Council has approved an increase in credit for an amount of 50,000 euros to cover the cost derived from carrying out the Viability Plan for the cultivation of pitaya in the Canary Islands under agroecological management, carried out by the Canarian Institute of Agricultural Research (ICIA), attached to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. The difficult situation of tomato cultivation in the Canary Islands as a result of competition from third countries, the successive pests suffered by crops, the increase in production costs and the effects of Brexit make it necessary to have the alternative of reorienting farms less competitive towards other types of crops that allow producers to obtain a decent income, without distorting the current conditions of the internal market. And one of those crops, already introduced in the Canary Islands, is the pitaya, which presents interesting market ...