"I have harvested 40,000 kilos less than last season and I have invoiced 40,000 euro more"
This is how Paco Fernandez, a producer of early peppers from El Ejido, summarizes what happened in many Almerian farms in this campaign; as Asaja Almeria detailed a few days ago, the market value of the product has skyrocketed more than 52% over the last season.
The president of Asaja Almeria confirmed that Almeria's agricultural sector had invoiced 3,639 million euro since
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