Spain: In Andalusia 130 million kilos of carrots are plowed

The fears of carrot growers in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia have come true. "After months, while the costs of raw materials continued to rise, tending the crops on the plots and using legally available water for irrigation from a basin that the government had declared to be in a situation of extraordinary drought , the Andalusian growers are plowing in their carrots due to a lack of buyers for their product," says Diego Bellido of growers association Coag. "The harvest of about 2,400 hectares out of a total of 2,600 is being destroyed. Until this year, the market for carrots has been very good, but this season prices have fallen to 15 cents, the amount that is now being paid for the harvest Subtract the costs from that and the grower only gets between 11 and 12 cents per kilo of carrots," explains Diego. "Unfortunately, we are dependent on Europe in Andalusia. Germany and the Netherlands, the largest consumers and producers of carrots, have had a good season. They ...