Spain: Mango and custard apple production will continue

The president of the Spanish Association of Tropical Fruit Producers, Javier Braun, pointed out that in this mango campaign the production level of 2020 will be maintained -about 26,000 tons between Malaga and Granada-, despite the fact that “the trees had to load more than a year ago ". This is highlighted by an article in the magazine FyH. According to the article, the greengrocers already offer mangoes of the new season and the first custard apples appear in them, a production of tropical fruit of which Spain will repeat volumes and to which the national avocado will be added in November. "It was a difficult flowering spring due to thermal changes, with times when it was very cool at night and then quite hot in the day," Braun said. Despite this, he acknowledged that the Spanish mango, "has already made its place in Europe", where it competes above all with the Brazilian -present twelve months of the year and harvested green. He also stressed that it is coming to the market ...