Spain needs to double its annual sunflower production

This was explained to EFE by Pedro Villa, manager of Northstar Brokerage, the organizer of the 15th Andalusian Commodity Exchange, an event held annually in Seville and bringing together more than 700 attendees from thirty countries. Executives, exporters, importers, brokers, commercial agents, and representatives of the agri-food industry attended a congress that has established itself as the leading private gathering for the agricultural raw materials sector in Europe and one of the largest worldwide. According to Villa, one of the main exporters of sunflower oil is Ukraine, although this product also reaches Spain from other territories, such as Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, and France, as well as Argentina from the American continent. In this context, the manager of Northstar Brokerage lamented the "uncertainty" existing in the sector due to the tariffs imposed by the United States government, which are "distorting trade relations and the trade balance that existed before ...