The IGP Lenteja de Tierra de Campos in Spain aims to double the surface area and covered production

This has been assured to Efeagro by the technical director of this PGI, Javier Alonso Ponga, who has valued both the quality of the product and its nutritional benefits as well as the sustainability of the crop, "which takes care of the environment by not using nitrates." "Our intention is that in a period of three or four years the production of protected lentil reaches one and a half million kilos, and the protected area, 10,000 hectares," he said. The technical director explained that much of the pardin lentils grown under the protection of the PGI is marketed without a back label since "consumers do not demand it because they are still unaware of this quality seal, which was born relatively recently, in 2005". "Consumers know the Spanish wine appellations, but they are unaware that there are ten quality labels for legumes and, even more, that the PGI Lenteja de Tierra de Campos covers about 60% of the sum of its surfaces", he commented. To publicize the Pardina lentil, the ...