The chestnut campaign in the Sierra de Huelva, Spain closes with 900,000 kilos collected
Chestnut Kernel
Spain
Published Jan 12, 2022
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Disappointing. That is the word that defines what has been the last chestnut campaign in the Sierra de Huelva. If at the beginning of last October, the producers expected good results based on the yields they were obtaining during the harvest of the early varieties, those expectations were dashed very soon when they verified that the drought that has been hitting the Huelva mountain region in recent years it was affecting the quality of the fruit they were harvesting. Proof of this is that of the estimated initial volume, which stood at around 1.7 million kilos, the final production obtained has been around 900,000 kilos, almost 50% less than what was expected to be collected during the campaign. of 2021. For the person in charge of the chestnut sector of the Coordinator of Organizations of Farmers and Ranchers of Huelva (COAG-Huelva), José Manuel Benítez, the main person responsible for this disastrous result is the weather. “The absence of rainfall and the heat that was ...
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