Planas rules out uprooting vineyards in Spain

Published Oct 14, 2024

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Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, has rejected the idea of following France's example in uprooting vines to address the decline in global wine consumption. Instead, Spain is considering measures such as aid for green grape harvesting and wine distillation to reduce production. The minister also emphasized the need for producers to control their performance and highlighted the shift towards lower alcohol content wines among younger generations. Despite the challenges, the Spanish wine sector is experiencing a rise in consumption and recovering exports.

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The Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, ruled out this Sunday that Spain will opt for uprooting vines, as France has done, as a response to the decline in world wine consumption. "Each country has its own problems and its own solutions, today," said Planas in a telephone statement to EFE from Dijon (France), where today he participated in a meeting of ministers of member countries of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV). "The same measure does not have to be applied to everyone," he added, although he pointed out that "there is concern at a European level." France has started a program to uproot 30,000 hectares of vineyards, for which the European Commission has authorized it to provide aid of 120 million euros. The French Minister of Agriculture, Annie Genevard, said today after the ministerial meeting that the wine sector in her country considers that 100,000 hectares should be uprooted on French soil. Planas explained that in Spain there have been ...

Source: PEefeagro