Spain: The drought and the lack of fertilizers reduce the Andalusian production of cereals by 23%
Spain
Published Jun 28, 2022
Tridge summary
With Andalusia immersed in the winter cereal harvesting campaign, ASAJA-Seville has celebrated this past week at the Industrial Agricultural Cooperative (CAPI) of ýcija, its XXXVII Edition of the Seminar on Herbýceous Crops which, with the collaboration of the Caja Foundation Rural del Sur and within the framework of the LIFE Agromitiga Project, it has allowed the more than 200 attending farmers to be informed of the current situation and market prospects for cereals and oilseeds, as well as the challenges and opportunities for herbaceous crops that will derive from the new environmental architecture of the CAP as of 2023.
Original content
The reduction in production, the sharp increase in the price of inputs and the volatility of the markets mark the harvest of winter cereals in a campaign that can undoubtedly be described as as the most expensive campaign in history. This was made clear in his speech by the head of the cereals and oilseeds sector of ASAJA-Seville, Fernando Rodrýguez, who offered an analysis of surfaces and productions in the current campaign, which has been greatly affected by low rainfall and the high production costs. The lack of water in the months of January and February, the weeds and the high temperatures reached in May have caused a 23% drop in yields, which have been medium-low, to which we must add that the costs of Production has skyrocketed: up to 120% from agricultural diesel and 180% from electricity, in addition to seeds (+20%), fertilizers (+150%) or water (+33%). The yields have been an average of 2,500 kg/ha in durum wheat and 2,000 kg/ha in soft wheat. Thus, and despite the ...
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