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Spain's Tudanca defends the strength of the beet and its "symbiosis" with the field

Sugar Beet
Sugar
Spain
Published Nov 12, 2022

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The regional secretary of the PSOE, Luis Tudanca, has visited this Friday the factory that the Azucarera company has in the Burgos town of Miranda de Ebro, one of the most important in Spain, since it receives fruits from more than two hundred beet growers from Castilla y León , but also from La Rioja, the neighboring Basque region, Navarra and Aragón, and that in the current campaign, in which they expect to grind more than 220,000 tons of beet, employs more than 140 people, 67 of them permanent.

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The regional secretary of the PSOE, Luis Tudanca, has visited this Friday the factory that the Azucarera company has in the Burgos town of Miranda de Ebro, one of the most important in Spain, since it receives fruits from more than two hundred beet growers from Castilla y León , but also from La Rioja, the neighboring Basque region, Navarra and Aragón, and that in the current campaign, in which they expect to grind more than 220,000 tons of beet, employs more than 140 people, 67 of them permanent, There, the socialist leader defended the "strength" of the beet sector, despite living in uncertainty and with continuous ups and downs for many years now, since the reform of the sugar CMO that forced the closure of plants such as Peñafiel, in Valladolid , or with the attacks by Alberto Garzón, the communist minister of the Sánchez government on sugar consumption. "The beet grower is a sector that resists and continues to generate employment and wealth as well as helping to establish ...
Source: La Razon
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