(You can also follow us on our WhatsApp channel) According to Juan Jesús Lara, president of the Tomato Committee of FEPEX, in an Opinion Column published by Demócrata.es this weekend, the production and marketing of tomatoes is one of the historic pillars of Spanish and European agriculture. Regions such as Almería, Granada, Murcia, Alicante, or the Canary Islands have built an economic and social fabric around this crop, generating hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs. Spain has been for years the leading supplier of tomatoes to the community market. However, in the last decade, Spanish production of fresh tomatoes for consumption has fallen alarmingly, while exports to the European Union have decreased and imports from Morocco have skyrocketed. Spanish exports of tomatoes to the European Union have fallen by 34%, while Spanish imports of tomatoes from Morocco have grown by 149%. In the community market, Spanish presence has been weakening, being replaced as the ...