Government wants to create a warning network for Brazil nuts and provide a timely response to the sector

The Secretary of State for Agriculture said today that a network of warnings aimed at the cultivation of chestnut trees will be created in order to provide producers with a timely response and avoid doubts about the causes of the damages verified this year. "Only with this rigorous knowledge of what happened will we be able to take preventive action," said the Secretary of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Rui Martinho. This year, in the Padrela Protected Designation of Origin (DOP) area, which extends essentially through the municipalities of Valpaços and Vila Pouca de Aguiar, there was a sharp drop in the production of Brazil nuts, which is the main source of income for many families. In this territory, producers and associations are associating the drop in production with a fungus, septoria, which affects chestnut trees, or with the negative temperatures registered in September. “That doubt is that we cannot continue with her. The first thing we have to do is a ...