Beekeepers encourage consuming locally sourced honey and assure that they are selling at a loss.

Published Mar 3, 2026

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Spanish beekeepers are celebrating reivindicative tastings this Tuesday in fifteen Spanish cities to ask consumers to bet on local honey, to "avoid mixtures," and, in passing, they have denounced that they are selling at a loss. The head of the beekeeping sector of the agrarian organization COAG, Pedro Loscertales, attended the event in Madrid, who, together with the consumer federation CECU, organized this simultaneous event in Almería, Huelva, Jaén, Zaragoza, Oviedo, Santander, Barcelona, Ourense, Madrid, Murcia, or Pamplona, among others. In statements to the media, Loscertales assured that the industry is paying, on average, 3.37 euros per kilo of honey compared to the 5.5 euros/kilo it costs the producer. Meanwhile, imported honey enters at 1.80 euros/kilo, which puts the national and the rest of the EU beekeeping sector in "check."

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Spanish beekeepers are celebrating reivindicative tastings this Tuesday in a dozen Spanish cities to urge consumers to opt for local honey, to "avoid mixtures," and, in the process, they have denounced that they are selling at a loss. The head of the beekeeping sector from the agricultural organization COAG, Pedro Loscertales, attended the event in Madrid, who, along with the consumer federation CECU, organized this simultaneous event in Almería, Huelva, Jaén, Zaragoza, Oviedo, Santander, Barcelona, Ourense, Madrid, Murcia, or Pamplona, among others. In statements to the media, Loscertales assured that the industry is paying, on average, 3.37 euros per kilo of honey compared to the 5.5 euros/kilo it costs the producer. Meanwhile, imported honey enters at 1.80 euros/kilo, which puts the national and EU beekeeping sector in "check." "The industry is carrying out this practice but as of today we are not aware of any complaint," assured Loscertales when asked if the Food Chain Law, ...
Source: PEefeagro

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