eh eh enormous influx of public eh
right now and at this time in the
cathedral of Almería with es bapi al mein
celi and tomorrow The same thing is expected to happen
with with allowing me the license
to compare it with what is going to happen on
the Paseo de Almería And tomorrow
from 10:30 in the morning until
12 in the afternoon the Paseo de Almería hosts
a new edition of Tomato Day
Almería claims to be the
world capital of tomatoes in an event organized
by the voice of Almería agriculture 2000 and
the chain will be more than 4000 kg of
tomato gaspachos prepared by the
best chefs in the province and
above all I want to enjoy a
good day and learn a lot about
tomatoes to talk about everything hoo I have a
connection with right now Jacinto
Castillo with my colleague responsible for
agriculture 2000 and and of the
network program being a farmer Jacinto good
afternoon how are you Good afternoon Alfredo and to
all your audience who follow you with great
affection Thank you very much Jacinto
for being there, look, I have tried to make
a parallel queues and and the number
of people who are going to see mein celi with what is
going to happen tomorrow on the Paseo
are two different worlds and two and two
completely different events But it is
true that they are two events that attract
the attention of many Almerians tomorrow we will do it
Let's see
again Yes, they are also two things and also
making a little effort to connect
such distant phenomena, the fact that
they are tremendously Almerian, they are
phenomena that are at the roots of
our city, our
authentic identity and precisely
one of the objectives What Tomato Day had
in its origin is the
tenth edition. It was to reinforce
the pride of belonging of the
people of Almería with respect to their agriculture in
general and of course logically symbolized
by the star product of this
municipality and and I would say that of everything the
Almeria agricultural model m eh Almería
world capital of tomato as you
said tenth edition of this of this
formative festive day and but above all
of tribute and recognition to
a sector the agricultural sector of our
city to those men and women who
every day They see
each of the tomatoes that we later
see on the shelves of the
supermarkets grow with great care. Of course, all that effort
that is sometimes, let's say, we have
supported by success by a
favorable situation, other times, not,
agriculture is always subject to the
ups and downs of all types of climatological
excessive behavior of pests and
plant diseases and also logically of
prices and problems that
transcend beyond their own
scope we are not seeing it these days
with Well, with the farmers' protests
and precisely this year for
that decade anniversary of
tomato day and the 60th anniversary of the
first greenhouse in the province of
Almería, we also wanted to offer
a kind of tour through the history
in quotes of the tomato reflected
in La Voz de Almería and also in
agriculture 2000 because it is a history
that also makes us think that
eh this activity is always always
under the eh let's say the sign of the
times I insist I once again remember the
climatology but also issues of
eh geopolitical issues various
international agreements new
regulations that is to say it is a world that is
far of is related to that
placidity of the bucolic and rural environment
of the countryside is in the heart of
society living it in a very
intense way sometimes with discordance
other times also in this In this
tour that we present in the
exhibition in the Aguilar
de Campo street eh Also notable successes such as
eh
amazing innovations
and let's say the projection of
flavored tomatoes with Rafa the head
eh even eh all the
sociological and human dimension that
agriculture has in our province but
the conflict is always behind
crisis the claims is an
exciting world that we can say offers all
kinds of emotions. Without a doubt,
tomorrow is a day to talk about all
this. It is also a day to enjoy time
with the family because there will be
activities for all tastes and For
all ages, of course. Starting with one
of the most important things, which is
the sale of solidarity tomatoes. It's true, well,
there are 4,500 kg of tomatoes that the
people of Almería will be able to take
distributed in bags for a
symbolic price to their homes. And that has a
solidarity purpose of first necessity
is the well for
e for the association anda for the
association atb that is to say associations that
deal with serious problems
complex problems in people's lives and
apart from that well prove nothing for
example the gaspachos that a
dozen Almeri kitchen masters
have prepared, have created especially
for this day or for example, well,
learn how to make a healthy breakfast,
all this always also with the
presence of ST from companies
specialized in tomato and other
products that they are quite close to
food products that they share with
the tomato because some of the
most solid gastronomic customs are most
internalized by the Alen. I think
that throughout the world without a doubt,
well, last year I think there were about
20,000 people. that
gathered on the Paseo this year, the objective is to
surpass that
figure, of course, I eh believe that the process
that Tomato Day has been experiencing
in its successive editions has
always been increasing in the response of
the people of Almeria eh, moving from the plaza
old woman to the walk already represented an
important reinforcement of the response but
each year it has been given greater
consideration by the city,
something for which we are tremendously
grateful and of course it is already
becoming a custom and it is beginning
to be something that is there in the almanac
not a little imaginary almanac of
urban events and Well, I
think that this also means that not
only is there a greater response but
I also notice or believe we notice
an increasingly greater affection on the part of
the people of Almería towards the tomato to what it
means to celebrate this day, a day as
we said, not for that, to eh show your chest
around the tomato and to say very loudly
that we are the tomato capital of the world,
well, Jacinto, see you tomorrow on
the Paseo starting at 10:30 We
will surely be there. A hug.
Thank you. See you tomorrow,
Tomato Day organized by La Voz Almería
Cadenaser and Agricultura 2000 from
10:30 in the morning until 2 in the
afternoon.