Region of Murcia produces 40% of the artichoke in Spain and exports 30% of the national total

The Region of Murcia produces 40 percent of the artichokes in Spain, the second country in the world in its cultivation, with 220,000 tons per year. Currently, the Region of Murcia is the largest national producer (40%) and the most exporter. artichoke from Spain, (30% of exports), with its main destinations being France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom. This was highlighted this Friday by the president of the Artichoke Association of Spain, Antonio Galindo, and the autonomous, Fernando López Miras, who together with the mayoress of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo, the chef of the restaurant El Mosqui, Sergio de la Orden, and the councilor for Agriculture and Urbanism of Torre Pacheco, Alberto Galindo Rosique, have participated in the act the start of the second harvest in the Campo de Cartagena. In that region, Arroyo highlighted, 60 percent of the regional total of this product is produced, of which Galindo has influenced its numerous healthy properties, ...