Spain: The Ministry of Agriculture promotes the Hortícolas project to expand the surface of this type of crops in Castilla y León

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, through the Agrarian Technological Institute of Castilla y León (Itacyl), has promoted the 'Horticultural' project. It is about finding new cultivation areas that are conducive to the development of this type of product in the Community. Once an edaphoclimatic report of lands that have gone from rainfed to irrigated land has been carried out, three areas have been identified where the first tests will be started: Arabayona de Mógica (Salamanca), Canalejas de Peñafiel (Valladolid) and Santibáñez de la Isla (León), in which three farmers will carry out the same study in each of them with the following products: three varieties of peas, two of corn, one of beans, brassicas, beets and lettuce. The Agricultural and Agri-Food Technology Center (Itagra), collaborating in this project, will carry out the planting and supervision of the trials with the farmers who will participate in this pilot experience. As stated by the ...