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The garlic campaign in Andalusia has concluded, according to forecasts, with a harvest of near 35.000 MT of very good quality. The produce is being sold to quite acceptable prices according to the APROCOA president.

The average production of each one of the approximately 2000 hectares dedicated to the culture of garlic in Andalusia this year, most of them in Cordova, lays between 15 and 20 MT. Despite of the registered reduction in the acreage, we have finally obtained a harvest similar to last year’s harvest. Due to the good prices, the sector anticipates to recover the acreage for the next campaign and an acreage of 3000 hectares will be seeded.

However, this is still a lot less than the 8000 the sector used to seed back in 1993. In that year the sector started to feel the hard competition of Chinese garlic that, in spite of its inferior quality, began to enter the European Union.

Nevertheless, with the 70.000 MT harvested in Pedro?eras (Spain’s main producing zone), plus the 35.000 MT from Andalusia and the 30.000 MT from the rest of Spain, the Iberian country is still the largest garlic producer of the EU.

Publication date: 5 Jul. 2006
Author: Isnet office