Alert of the risk of extinction of a very traditional crop of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain

The Board of Trustees of the La Mancha Saffron Protected Designation of Origin Regulatory Council Foundation has warned that saffron cultivation in Castilla-La Mancha is in a "limit situation", so much so that there is currently an obvious risk of extinction of the spice , unless financial support measures are adopted that encourage the start-up of new plantations and the maintenance of the current ones. And it is that, to the reasons that have historically been dragging on and that have never been dealt with effectively by any of the actors involved in this sector, Administration included, two determining factors must be added: the absence of a corm market with the sufficient sanitary and control guarantees, which considerably conditions the decision to carry out a new plantation, and the vertiginous drop in the yield of saffron production associated with the decrease in flowering. There are indications that point to climate change as one of the main reasons for this decrease, ...