Spain: 25,000 tons of imported rice enter Port de Sagunt while the warehouses are full of Valencian rice

Rice

Spain

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Published Mar 8, 2024

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Spanish and Valencian rice companies, including La Fallera, Arroz SOS, Arroz Dacsa and ARCESA, have been criticized by agricultural organization La Unió Llauradora i Ramadera for importing 25,000 tons of rice from Southeast Asia. The organization claims these imports do not meet European standards for the production and use of phytosanitary products, and are causing a drop in local rice prices while Valencian warehouses are full due to reduced purchases. The organization is contemplating protest actions against these companies.

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March 7, 2024.- La Unió Llauradora i Ramadera denounces that yesterday a ship with 25,000 tons of rice from Southeast Asia and imported by large Spanish and Valencian rice companies entered the Port of Sagunt, when the warehouses in the Valencian Community were closed. are full due to the slowdown in purchases. This is the IVONE ship, flying the Maltese flag, and coming from Tunisia, which arrives after passing through Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar and Egypt. Yesterday it unloaded at the port and everything indicates that today it will distribute to the importing and distributing companies. The rice sector of LA UNIÓ is studying the possibility of calling for protest actions against these importing companies at the time of specifying who they are, although according to the sources consulted the importing companies that will subsequently distribute this imported rice are La Fallera, Arroz SOS, Arroz Dacsa and ARCESA (La Perdiz). The agricultural organization criticizes these imports ...

Source: Agrodigital