30% of the area planted with garlic in Spain will not be harvested due to the rains that have fallen

30% of the area planted with garlic in Spain will not be harvested this campaign as a result of the persistent rains at the end of May and beginning of June, as the president of the ASAJA Garlic Sector, Miguel del Pino, told Efe. . The business leader will present this forecast this Tuesday, which extends to the area planted with garlic in the other three producing countries in Europe, France, Italy and Portugal, at the plenary meeting that the Joint Fruit and Vegetable Committee of these three states and Spain is holding in Rome to address the conclusions of the contact groups of which professionals from the respective nations are a part. Spain has 27,000 hectares of garlic planted, mainly in Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia, whose harvest reduction will mean, Del Pino has specified, "a significant reduction in kilos." Despite the fact that in the other three European producing countries the situation is similar, the difference in production, where Italy is the closest and does ...