Northern Spain: Villages in La Rioja produce 77,000 tons of mushrooms each year
Three villages in La Rioja - northern Spain – are home to the vast, dark, humid growing sheds that produce its 77,000 tons of mushrooms each year. Almost half of Spain’s cultivated mushroom crop is grown in the region. This makes Spain the third-largest producer in Europe, behind Poland and the Netherlands.
Pablo Martínez, is an agronomist who is based at the Mushroom
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