Spain: Chestnut sector in Huelva expects to reach 1.5 million kilos, with a decrease due to weather

HUELVA, Nov. 1 (EUROPA PRESS) - The Coordinator of Organizations of Farmers and Ranchers of Huelva (COAG) plans to reach 1.5 million kilos of chestnut in the campaign of this year 2021 in the region of the Sierra de Huelva, although at the beginning of it, due to the harvest that there was, it was expected around 1.7 million. This has been indicated to Europa Press by the person in charge of the chestnut sector of COAG-Huelva, José Manuel Benítez, who has specified that although the estimate was higher, they believe that "with the lack of rain it will reduce a lot". Regarding the situation of the campaign, Benítez explained that "the water that fell in the mountains at the beginning of the month came quite well, both for early and late chestnuts", since he specified that "then it stopped. to rain "and that" the heat it has done is not good "because this fruit" needs a lot of water ". At this point, he pointed out that as of this Monday, November 1, the late chestnut season begins, ...