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The Cabildo and Asoquegran promote the Gran Canaria livestock sector with the 'Consume baifo for Christmas' campaign
He Cabildo of Gran Canaria, through your Primary Sector Counseling, Food sovereignty and water security, tutored by Miguel Hidalgo, and the Gran Canaria Cheese Producers Association (in Asoquegra), They seek to promote and strengthen the island's livestock sector with a new edition of the promotion campaign 'Consume baifo for Christmas', with which the insular Government fulfills one of the objectives of its PStrategic Plan of the Primary Sector: improve the competitiveness of the island's farms and raise awareness and disseminate the added value of local productions.
The president of Council, Antonio Morales, next to Miguel Hidalgo and the president of in Asoquegra, Maria del Carmen Perez, were in charge of making known the details of this initiative, which aims to increase the profitability of the associated artisanal cheese factories, who make cheese with raw milk from cattle on their own farms, and highlight the island's goat meat, two local products that have a high gastronomic quality.
Consume baifo for Christmas
The campaign 'Consume baifo for Christmas', whose first edition was held in 2020, It was launched this year last Friday, day 1 from December, with an activity that was carried out in two of the six public education centers that teach Cooking Technician studies, gastronomy and/or restoration in Gran Canaria who participate in 'Consume baifo at Christmas'. So, during that day, the students, in collaboration Island Slaughterhouses of Gran Canaria, They learned the techniques of butchering these animals, in order to value their meat.
Specifically, The six centers that are part of this campaign are CIFP Felo Monzón y CIFP San Cristobal, both in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; he CIFP Villa de Agüimes; he IES Bathtubs, in Arucas; he IES Faro of Maspalomas, in San Bartolome de Tirajana, and the IES Northwest of Santa María de Guía.
In this edition, the circumstance occurs that, with the aim of facilitating the acquisition of baifos born and raised on the island, It will be possible to order them at the Farm Market Butcher Shop which will take place in the Farm of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, on saturday 9 from December.
Besides, You can also taste the exquisite tapas that the students will make with the baifo meat, in the educational cafeterias of the CIFP Felo Monzón, next wednesday 13 from December, and of CIFP San Cristobal of the capital of Gran Canaria and IES Northwest of Guide, on thursday 14.
Gastronomic date with goat meat and baifo, and with island cheeses
To complete the activities for the valorization of goat and baifo meat, on saturday, 20 January 2024, will be celebrated on 2º Baifo stall with Gran Canaria cheeses, in the facilities of the Agricultural Farm of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria in Cardons, in Arucas, within the framework of Agricultural Market, Livestock and Fisherman of that day.
This gastronomic meeting, in which it is planned that more than 4.000 tapas, between salty and sweet, with a baifo meat consumption of approximately 300 kilos, Its purpose is to promote the consumption of local baifo and goat meat., accompanied by artisan cheese and seasonal agricultural products from the Island.
The event schedule will be from 12.00 until 17.00 hours, although the covers will go on sale at popular prices starting at 13.00 hours until stocks end. So, each and all attendees will have the opportunity to savor 14 savory tapas and seven sweets, in addition to boards of artisan cheeses Gran Canaria.
Besides, for this recreational-gastronomic festival, Various leisure activities have been scheduled, which will start with an opening parade and will include children's games for the little ones, the musical accompaniment of 'Los Cochineros' by Ingenio and, to finish, a concert by the rock band 'Los 600'.
