The Government of the Azores has granted the Horta Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIH) a financial support in the amount of 45,100 Euros to “ensure the technical requirements of the processing and marketing operations of animal husbandry products in the Region.”
This governmental support is part of the cooperation protocol signed between the Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and Forestry with the CCIH in April this year “to implement hygiene, health and quality programmes amongst the production structures of animal husbandry products within the processing and marketing activities.”
 In an ordinance published in the Official Journal on Tuesday, the Regional Secretary for Agriculture and Forestry justified the awarded support due to the importance of economic activities developed by the CCIH in the “promotion of interactivity between agro-trade, the food industry, and the base agricultural and animal husbandry production.”
Noé Rodrigues also defended that this interactivity “will enhance the dissemination and promotion, expanding the economic growth, which will improve and increase the marketing of the agricultural production, thus, contributing to the mobilisation of local and external communities in the defence of regional products.”
Furthermore, the Regional Secretary also mentioned that the Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and Forestry has the power “to support the organisation, structuring and development of various forms of association by promoting and boosting the agricultural sector in several aspects and modalities that are considered the most viable and profitable for the regional economy.”