The Spanish countryside overcomes the Covid crisis with an excellent note

The Spanish agri-food and fishing sector is indisputably one of the export engines of our economy and the Covid has only reinforced this reality: in fact, exports of products such as fruits, meats, wine and fish reached the year passed 53,848 million euros, with a positive trade balance of 18,693 million euros, compared to a reduction in the trade balance, globally, of 57.4%. This represents, in terms of value, an increase of 4.1% in sales abroad compared to the previous year (51,719.86 million) and a historical record. It should be remembered that, in 2012, these exports were barely 35,935.93 million euros. All these figures from the 'Annual Foreign Trade Advance', prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acquire their true dimension when it is taken into account that all Spanish exports fell by 10.2% in 2020. On these data, the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, announced that if we take the last mobile year as a reference (May 2020-2021), exports now ...