Half of the almond area in production is already organic in Almería, Spain
Almond Kernel
Spain
Published Jan 5, 2022
Tridge summary
Spain is the world's leading power in organic almonds and Andalusia has a lot to do with this since it is the main producing community, concentrating more than 40% of the national surface and close to 30% of the production. In this sense, Granada and Almería are at the forefront of this crop in Andalusia as a whole.
Original content
According to the latest 2020-2021 campaign report released by the Observatory of Prices and Markets of the Junta de Andalucía, specifically, the Almeria province has 27,290 hectares of organic almond trees in production, 2% more than in the previous campaign or 1,694 hectares in absolute numbers, which represents 50.9% of the total Almeria surface of almonds in production and 38% of the ecological one in Andalusia, where the leading province is Granada, with 41,297 hectares, representing 58% of the total community. Both organic and conventional, Almería has 58,088 hectares of almond trees, 96.5% rainfed; in production, the figure drops to 53,621 hectares, of which 97.2% is rainfed according to the progress of surfaces and productions of 2020 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA), in which it is indicated that the yield in Dry land amounted to 445 kilos per hectare compared to 1,349 kilos in irrigated land, with total production in that year of 25,189 tons ...
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