The lemon campaign in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico is presented with a 50% drop in production and good prices at origin

Young Farmers ASAJA Alicante foresees that the next season of the Vega Baja del Segura lemon will develop with favorable prices for producers due to the good context in which it starts. Marked, on the one hand, by the current shortage of the European market due to the drop-off arrival of imports of this citrus from the Southern Hemisphere and, on the other, by a 50% decrease in production of the Verna variety in our area, caused by three factors: a previous year of great harvest, the consequences that are still emerging from DANA, from which many trees have not yet recovered, and the abundant rains in April, which affected the flowering of the trees. Likewise, the farmers ask the Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, to stop the continuous cuts to the Tajo-Segura Transfer in Level 3, when their own technicians and the Memorandum Law advise the sending of 20 cubic hectometres, with the purpose of having enough water for the development of the fruit campaign in ...