Spain: Stone fruit adapts its productive potential to consumer demands

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has published on its website a study that analyzes the productive reality of the stone fruit sector in Spain 2020, which shows how apricot, peach and nectarine producers have adapted their potential productive to consumer demands. The analysis has been carried out in order to deepen the knowledge of stone fruit plantations, a need that is included in the Improvement Plan for the Sweet Fruit Sector. Increase in the planted area The study shows an increase of 9% in the areas planted with cherry in the last year, reaching 23,006 hectares. There have also been increases in planted areas of Paraguayan (+ 7%), with a total of 10,200 and of platerina (+ 15%), still a minority crop with just 500 hectares, but with a good growth rate and increasing demand. For all these crops, high percentages of plantations under 5 years of age are recorded, which in the case of cherry trees account for 18% of the total, 19% in the case of Paraguayan and 38% ...