Spain: Asaja warns of a critical situation for La Vera paprika

The president of Asaja Extremadura, Angel García, has denounced the "critical situation" that the La Vera paprika sector is going through due to the weather, which has caused a drop in production, the difficulty in finding crews to collect the pepper and the costs of production. It is a sector in which 214 farming families currently live, according to García, who recalled that it is a "hugely social" crop, given that each hectare represents more than 100 daily wages. He added that it is a crop that produces a unique and exclusive product, which "is successful both nationally and internationally, which makes it exclusive." The president of Asaja has pointed out that, due to the weather, barely 2,000 kilos per hectare and has shown his perplexity about the fact that in a region like Extremadura with such a high unemployment rate "we are not able to find crews to harvest peppers." "The few there are Moroccan workers who are setting unaffordable prices, above 4,000 euros per hectare," ...