Spain: Castilla-La Mancha doubles its area of almond trees

Almond cultivation in Castilla-La Mancha occupies 150,000 hectares, that is, it has doubled its surface in five years, and its organic production exceeds 50,000 hectares, which makes the autonomous community the one that grows the most in this crop and in all of the ecological ones at the national level. This has been transferred by the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development, Francisco Martínez Arroyo, who has accompanied the regional president, Emiliano García-Page, on his visit to the Almendrun de Tomelloso company (Ciudad Real), where he has inaugurated a new plant processing of this dried fruit, the Board reported in a press release. "We are gaining ground in organic farming, we are the great ecological power of the country, and one of the most important in Europe", acknowledged the head of the regional Executive who stressed that this will be "the star" of the new Rural Development Program (PDR ) that the regional government will present “to the Brussels ...