During the meeting, an assessment was made of the current situation of the agricultural sector, with special attention to bananas, as well as the progress achieved and the difficulties that still persist in the recovery process. In this context, the validation in December 2025 of Royal Decree-Law 13/2025, which allows to allocate 100 million euros of the surplus of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands to compensate those affected by the volcanic eruption, was valued. A measure that, according to the Commissioner, has meant “a decisive advance to give economic security to farmers and make it easier for them to invest again in the recovery of their farms.”

However, both Asepalma and ASPA agree that “it is insufficient; we must give the confidence to the producers that they will have an accompaniment through public aid and investments in infrastructure to maintain the productive fabric and thus face a real agricultural reconstruction”.

The associations have transferred to Izquierdo the diverse situation that the sector is experiencing, with farms that have already managed to resume production and others that continue to be conditioned by the lack of infrastructure, access, land to sift the plantations, or hydraulic pipelines, underlining the need to maintain the pace of execution of the works and institutional support.