Big crowds for Spanish spring onion, calçot, is expected at Mercabarna this year as before the pandemic

Sales of calçot, the Spanish spring onion, are going well at Mercabarna. According to figures collected by the wholesale market of Barcelona, the month of January ended with the distribution of 4 million units (4,000,962). That is 38.5% more than in January last year, in full pandemic, but also slightly more than in the same month of 2020, just before the coronavirus broke out (3,995,792 calçots). "We could end the season with sales of 15 million units. That brings us back to the record figures from just before the pandemic," predict specialized wholesalers on Mercabarna in calçot. Local and seasonal The calçot is a real regional and seasonal product. This bulbous crop, popular in northeastern Spain, will be on the market at the end of October, with production mainly from the Catalan provinces of Lleida and Girona at the start of the season. The last calçots come on the market in April. "The pandemic has put trade on standby for a while, but now the calçot has resumed the growing ...