Manchego cheese production in Spain resists the pandemic and increases 1.78% in 2020

Manchego cheese resisted the pandemic in 2020 and increased its production by 1.78% compared to the previous year, while its exports also grew, an aspect in which the United States stands out as the main foreign consumer. Denomination of Origin Queso Manchego, has gone from producing 16,630,961 kilograms in 2019 to 16,927,049 in 2020, that is, 296,088 more kilos.In turn, exports registered an increase of 4.61% and in 2020 and sold abroad 11,722,627 kilos compared to the 11,206,232 exported in 2019, which represents an increase of 516,395 kilograms. Last year 69.25% of the total of Manchego cheese was exported, while that figure was, in 2019, at 67.38% .The United States has established itself as the country with the highest consumption and the first foreign destination of Manchego cheese, since almost half of total sales abroad are concentrated in this country, and in that sense , in 2020 5,705,522 kilograms were exported ...