Spain: Unión de Uniones forecasts that almond production in the current campaign will fall by 44%

MADRID, Nov. 10 (EUROPA PRESS) - Union of Unions of Farmers and Ranchers, foresees that the current almond campaign, 2022-2023, will suffer a drop in production of more than 44%, 40% compared to the average of the last five years, as reported in a statement . Specifically, the agrarian organization has indicated among the causes of this collapse the effect of the frosts in April together with the effects of the drought in the irrigated areas of the Guadalquivir Valley. For its part, the production in the United States is also lower than the previous campaign, worse very slightly (-4%) and above the average (+6.5%) due to the fact that the decrease in yields has been cushioned by the increase in cultivated area year after year. On the other hand, Union of Unions has questioned the functioning of the Nuts Table. "The Table of Nuts is limited to characterizing the sector, ignoring the risk of abandoning large areas of cultivation. We propose the necessary complementation of the price ...