SPAIN/PISTACHIO: 145% INCREASE THE PLANTED AREA REACHING 78 THOUSAND HECTARES

In the last five years, Spain has increased the area cultivated with pistachios by 145%, going from 32 thousand hectares in 2019 to more than 78 thousand hectares in 2023. The success factors have been resistance to drought, as well as high profitability of this crop that allowed Spain to scale in the world market. From the study “Present and future of pistachio cultivation and transformation, a business perspective”, presented in Madrid and carried out by the company Agróptimum, a potential growth of pistachio is evident both for production and for the development of the national consumer market in the next years you can see years. In fact, in Spain the cultivation of pistachio is following the "path of success", similar to that already followed by other crops such as olive and almond trees. The success of the pistachio in Spain is due to its ability to adapt to the climate of the Iberian Peninsula, especially in regions that have very ...