“The artichoke processing industry should also adapt to the Green Queen”
The fields of the largest artichoke production area in Spain have been covered with a layer of ice for several days, which will have a considerable impact on production. “There have been frosts recorded from Alicante to Lorca, and in the Guadalentín Valley almost all the fields are affected,” stated Pepe Ortuño, from SAT Olé. “Low temperatures are peaking and lasting for hours, which makes the frosts more damaging."
“On the one hand, the frosts have affected a lot of first-tier products that were intended for retail sale that, unless we are all in the same situation and there are only second-tier products, we'll have to divert to other types of customers and local markets. On the other hand, this season we are also facing other difficulties, of a more general nature, which we had already started to notice last season."
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