Spain denounces the entry of a ship with 25,000 tons of imported rice into Port de Sagunt, with the local warehouses full of local rice

Rice

Published Mar 8, 2024

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Spanish and Valencian rice companies, including La Fallera, Arroz SOS, Arroz Dacsa and ARCESA, have been criticized by agricultural organization LA UNIÓ Llauradora for importing 25,000 tons of rice from Southeast Asia. The organization argues that these imports, which do not meet European standards for the production and use of phytosanitary products, are unnecessary as local warehouses are already full due to a slowdown in purchases. They also claim that these imports are used to lower the price of local rice.

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LA UNIÓ Llauradora denounces that this Thursday the 7th a ship will enter the Port of Sagunt with 25,000 tons of rice imported from Southeast Asia and imported by large Spanish and Valencian rice companies, when the warehouses in the Valencian Community are full due to the slowdown in the purchases. This is the IVONE ship, flying the Maltese flag, and coming from Tunisia, which arrives after passing through Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar and Egypt. Today the unloading will take place at the port and everything indicates that the distribution to the importing and distributing companies of these 25,000 tons of imported rice will take place on Friday. The rice sector of LA UNIÓ is studying the possibility of calling for protest actions against these importing companies at the time of specifying who they are, although according to the sources consulted the importing companies that will subsequently distribute this imported rice are La Fallera, Arroz SOS, Arroz Dacsa and ARCESA (La ...

Source: Agroinformacion