Spain: Strawberry exports decreased by 10% in the last campaign

The Strawberry Contact Group of France, Italy, Spain and Portugal has carried out an analysis of the campaign on which Freshuelva, representative of Spain in this contact group, through Fepex, highlighted that the last campaign ended with a decline of 10% in exports, mainly due to the climatic adversities suffered at the beginning and end of the campaign. Regarding the present, he stressed that the planted hectares have decreased by 3%, pointing to the “a lot of uncertainty” with which this exercise is faced, which already began with problems in the plantation that forced 30% of the plants to be replanted. due to climatic adversities. For its part, the French sector, headed by the head of the Association of Strawberry Producer Organizations of France, AOP Fraise de France, Xavier Mas, pointed out the difficulties of production in the last campaign, which resulted in 60,000 tons destined exclusively for national consumption. France highlighted the significant increase in the cost ...