In Portugal, Algarve citrus campaign 2020/2021 is excellent

Published 2021년 2월 18일

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The Algarve region's citrus fruit campaign is set to continue shattering production records, with high quality and increasing export records, as noted by the regional director of Agriculture and Fisheries, Pedro Valadas Monteiro. The Continente distribution chain has committed to purchasing 14,500 tons of Algarve oranges, a 5% increase from previous years, and other supermarkets are also showing interest in PGI-certified Algarve oranges. Despite the economic challenges of the pandemic, the Algarve's agricultural sector, with its competitive export and small-scale, diversified farming, is experiencing steady growth in sales of Portuguese products, acquiring over 160 thousand tons of agrifood goods in the last year.

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Source: barlavento.sapo.pt Citrus fruit campaign in the Algarve should continue to break production records with high quality according to the regional director of Agriculture and Fisheries Pedro Valadas Monteiro. It was not surprising that Pedro Valadas Monteiro, responsible for the Regional Directorate for Agriculture and Fisheries (DRAP) in the Algarve, received the news that in 2021, the Continente distribution chain will acquire 14,500 tons of Algarve orange from producers, plus five more percent than in the past. «This campaign is running, in principle, in a very similar way to the previous one, which was excellent. In other words, export records were broken. Large supermarkets are also increasingly buying our citrus fruits, ”he told the windward. A very important fact in this success has to do with certification, that is, the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), especially with regard to Algarve orange. «More and more what is being sought, both in the export market and ...

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