Farmers in Portugal surrender to fruit and vegetable production

Agricultural area dedicated to vegetables and small, subtropical and dry fruit production has soared in the last decade in Portugal, according to the INE With the United Nations decreeing 2021 the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, Portugal stands out with the pose of those is there to win. In vegetables, Portuguese farmers increased the area dedicated to production by 7%, in the ten years that ended in 2019. In fruits, only in the production of small berries, the area had a “remarkable” growth of 2792%. Subtropical orchards more than doubled the area, and so did nuts, according to preliminary data from the agricultural census of the National Statistics Institute. Despite the fact that the country has been losing arable land since 1989, largely due to the reduction in the areas of cereals for grain and potatoes, INE points out that, on the contrary, there was an increase of 42% in the area of legumes for grain, an evolution which the institute associates in part “with ...