The garlic surface area has decreased in Spain by almost a third in the last two campaigns

The cultivated area of garlic in Spain registers a decrease of more than 30% adding these last two campaigns compared to the area in 2022, which highlights the great difficulties in terms of cultivation that Spanish garlic is going through, especially that of garlic. purple that for the first time its surface area falls below 40% of the total cultivated area, according to the National Association of Garlic Producers and Marketers (ANPCA). The problems facing the sector are the sharp increase in production costs, as well as increasingly complicated access to water, the difficulty of labor, a CAP that does not help this sector since it makes access to agricultural land difficult. lease. Garlic, considered a social crop by the European Union, is increasingly defenseless in the face of the avalanche of measures that both European and national governments are adopting in the agricultural sector, with special emphasis on the dismantling of the crop's phytosanitary defense system. with ...