Spain aspires to meet the whole of Europe's demand for aloe vera

Published Mar 13, 2021

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The National Association of Aloe Entrepreneurs (Asocialoe) is aiming to expand aloe vera cultivation in Spain to meet European demand, currently not met by the current thousand hectares of cultivation. The association believes that with support and financial aid, aloe vera, a highly profitable crop, could meet all European demand. The Californian red worm humus used in cultivation is believed to increase the plant's potency. Despite the 2020 pandemic, Spain remains the main European producer of high-quality aloe vera.

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These are the expectations of the National Association of Aloe Entrepreneurs (Asocialoe) whose vice president, Carlos Camacho, bases these data on having already achieved in 2019 the sale of all Spanish production on the European continent. In a conversation with Efeagro at his Encinarejo plantation, an autonomous local entity in Córdoba, a few meters from the banks of the Guadalquivir, Camacho points out that Asocialoe's aspiration is "to fully develop the sector so that it can meet all European demand." EUROPEAN OBJECTIVE For this, some six or seven thousand hectares of cultivation would have to be reached, compared to the thousand that may be in Spain, according to the numbers that the entity shuffles, since there are no official statistics on this crop. Neither the Survey on Surfaces and Yields of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food nor the Information System on Ecological Production of the Junta de Andalucía, despite being all the cultivated extension in the ...

Source: PEefeagro