Finca Las Margaritas

The Coast of Las Galletas in the municipality of Arona, is the largest greenhouse banana-growing area in Tenerife. In this volcanic territory, the emigration of farmers from the island of La Palma, since the 70s of the last century, has developed an enormous amount of specialist work to improve the production of Canary Island bananas and to export more than 26,000 tonnes each year to the mainland and European markets.

Finca Las Margaritas began with the cultivation of bananas in 1977, from the union and entrepreneurship of various family members. Adolfo Guerra Gonzalez and Margarita Hernandez Perez. Both come from a long family line of banana farmers from S/C de La Palma and San Andrés y Sauces.

As well as the rest of the nearby estates, Finca Las Margaritas overcame difficult territorial conditions for agricultural establishment: strong sunshine and wind, volcanic lava flows, unavailability of water, large investments in capital and machinery, soils poor in organic matter; and which also made use of old terraces used for tomato cultivation.