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The Leader Newspaper By Andrew Atkinson Tens of thousands of lemons are being left to rot in the Vega Baja – highlighted by the paltry sum offered of 0.03cents a KILO! This week ONE lemon purchased in Lancashire cost 63p. Enter Los Montesinos a Vega Baja town and witness the lemon groves aplenty that remains to be gathered, due to not being cost effective, with labour crops costing in the region of €5-€8 to be picked. The farming industry has been hit following the closure of the hostelry industry in Spain during the last year, due to the coronavirus pandemic. ASAJA-Alicante has approached the Consell for direct aid, along with tax exemptions for the agricultural sector. ....
Ban on selling below cost price could help Spanish banana producers In the light of the Spanish government’s current review of its legal prohibition on supermarkets selling agricultural produce below cost price, and banana industry debate around ALDI’s proposed contract price for 2021, Banana Link Policy and Communications Coordinator, Paul Lievens, considers how such a globally wider prohibition might contribute to fairer prices for banana export producers. The Spanish Government Congress is currently holding hearings in a review of its Food Chain Law (Ley de la Cadena Alimentaria) that it introduced in 2013 with the aim of redressing imbalances in commercial relations between agricultural producers and retailers. In particular, debate is centred around provisions added to the law by Royal Decree in February 2020 that introduced a prohibition on retailers selling agricultural produce at a loss, and required retailers to pay producers a price equal to or greater than ....
Spain could achieve the goal of 25% organic production by 2030 In the framework of a visit to Mercabarna and the Biomarket, the first wholesale market for organic food in Spain, the Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, said that Spain could achieve the European Commission s objective of making 25% of the agricultural production organic by 2030. He stressed that Spain is at the forefront in Europe in terms of organic production, accounting for 9.3% of the total useful agricultural area devoted to this type of production, despite the fact that consumption is “way behind. In this sense, Planas said that the recently inaugurated Biomarket could help develop the promotion and distribution of these foods, so that they reach the public more easily. The Minister said that it is a leading example for the sector, not only in Spain, but in southern Europe. ....
Many breaches of contract detected in the peak of the Spanish citrus campaign In the peak of the citrus season, the Valencian Association of Agricultural Producers (AVA-ASAJA) has detected an increasing number of breaches of contract by commercial operators in the sale of citrus fruits, mainly oranges and mandarins. The most common abusive practice reported by AVA-ASAJA is that of businesses unilaterally lowering the price agreed with the producer at the beginning of the season, when the outlook was more optimistic due to the rise in the demand for citrus in Europe because of COVID-19. In some cases, producers claim that the new price offered for their fruits is even lower than the production costs (between 0.22 and 0.26 Euro per kilo, depending on the variety), which would lead to losses and cause even more fields to be abandoned. ....