Large influx of visitors on the first day of the 2024 Island Livestock Fair

 

The first day of the traditional 2024 Livestock Fair and Island Select Livestock Contest reached close to 17.000 visitors who comfortably enjoyed the great agricultural event of the islands, given the large size of the venue, the varied offer of scheduled activities.

 

 

The doors opened at ten in the morning and at 11.30:XNUMX a.m., with the traditional 'paseíllo' of sheep and goats that generated great expectation. The tastings of local products filled all the places and the technical visits to the animals on display, with veterinary professionals as guides, aroused great interest. 

 

The team of veterinarians who participated as judging jurors for each animal category of the Select Livestock Competition, visited the pens of the animals in the competition from the first hour and at 13.00:XNUMX p.m., the lambs and rams were evaluated in the stage area. and young and adult goats finalists with genealogical chart. The concert by the group 'Última Parada' and the final classification of the cattle closed the day. 

 

Uninterrupted shopping, dining and children's activities. 

 

The children's workshops showed, once again, the primary sector and its reality to the little ones in a playful way, by including performances from the island songbook that made the little ones dance and sing to the rhythm of a song composed and inspired by the primary sector of Gran Canaria, which aims to encourage people to order local products and raise awareness among the population about its importance.

 

 

The food court served meals all day; Canarian black pork fleas in salt, along with fresh fish fries from Taliarte, were the most popular products. The usual km0 local product stalls allowed visitors to purchase fruit, vegetables, traditional sweets, artisan bread, jams, natural local fruit juices, cheeses, eggs and other products, accompanied by several traditional craft stalls. This year, as a novelty, fresh fish was also sold by the Taliarte-Melenara Fishermen's Cooperative.

 

For all these reasons, the Gran Canaria Livestock Fair with the XXXI edition of the Select Livestock Contest and the School Fair, constitute the largest event of the primary and insular livestock sector, organized by the Ministry of Primary Sector and Food Sovereignty and that complies with the objective of its Strategic Plan to make visible and value the island primary sector and its products.