In Andalusia there are 806,726.55 hectares devoted to organic production, according to the General Secretariat of Rural. It remains the region with the largest certified area of the Spanish (50.10%) territory, but suffered a decline of 15% compared to last year. It is the first significant decline in the sector since its inception.
The leading crops in Málaga are the olive grove with 2,621 acres and 1,280 nuts. In these two cases it has also decreased the surface compared to previous campaigns. Citrus, with 1135.68 hectares, have also slowed their rise in recent years, but Malaga is the province with the largest certified ahead of Almeria and Huelva surface.
In subtropical crops, Malaga is a reference in Andalusia. However, in the last year there has been a decrease of 30%, which since Asaja are “key to understanding the problems that organic production is facing”. In the area of ​​Axarquia most tropical fruit production and subtropical ecological focus, but is spreading through the Valle del Guadalhorce and the West Coast.
Thus, each year in the province 600,000 kilos of avocados and 900 tons of mango, with 70% of organic production of subtropical Andalusian with 439.12 hectares certified traded reached.
The latest data back pose if you have peaked in the production of organic farming Malaga or you can work to increase. To Asaja-Malaga you are living “a critical moment in forward or reverse” the new European regulation is unfavorable to the interests of producers and the Andalusian has conducted a “drastic decline” in aid to the sector.
