date:Sep 12, 2019
r 50,000 in the latest campaign. Of the 16,000 jobs that the sector generated 15 years ago, less than 6,000 remain. From half a hundred companies at the time, only seven resist (for now). Lastly, the acreage has been reduced from about 3,000 hectares to just 500.
The cost of transportation to ship the tomatoes to the Peninsula or Europe is an added factor. While a peninsular tomato arrives to a country like the Netherlands in a little more than two days, Canary growers need five, as a part of t