Spain: Challenges for Valencian clementines are predicted if the agreement with South Africa is not renegotiated

The Asaja Alicante association affirmed that great challenges will be generated, if not that it reviews the citrus agreement with South Africa. According to them, it is necessary "to carry out a renegotiation of the conditions and include safeguard clauses that impose tariffs and prohibit the arrival of citrus from the neighboring continent when the Spanish campaign begins," reported Valencia Fruits. The organization denounced a "low morality and commitment of the chains of Great Distribution and supermarkets with the Spanish producers and the European consumers when rejecting the purchase of the first Spanish mandarins, sinking the beginning of the campaign, while they supply their cold rooms in a massive way of tangerines from South Africa ". On the other hand, the local news outlet highlighted the problems facing the Spanish citrus industry. They pointed out that the Large Distribution Chains are not buying Spanish fruits, while they are buying South African mandarins. “Not one ...