Spain: Spanish pear trees need water
High temperatures in July are not good for anyone. For pears either, especially for the conference. A little less than six weeks to begin the collection, which will take place around 20 August the municipalities of the PDO ‘Peras de Rincón’ pay maximum attention to their trees.
High temperatures in July are not good for anyone. For pears either, especially for the conference. A little less than six weeks to begin the collection, which will take place around 20 August the municipalities of the PDO ‘Peras de Rincón’ pay maximum attention to their trees.
“It’s a time to be very aware of the risks to follow pear fatter,” says Eduardo Perez Malo, president of the DOP. They also can not forget about other problems that often arise at this time. “We also have to continue to control fire blight and cut trees that come out,” he adds.
Campaign is expected to lower production than in other years. The name remains an area of 850 hectares of the potential kilos varies between 15 and 20 million; last year collected 17 of which 11 million went to the stamp ‘Peras de Rincón’, as the smaller caliber are sold without that label despite belonging to it. “In this issue we have doubled the numbers compared to five years ago,” says Eduardo.
An expectation
Designation is waiting for the new campaign and prays to be improved than before. “The first part of the sales campaign until February or March was pretty bad,” he explains. The veto of Russia and the proliferation of other fruits that have extended their duration in the market has led the pear has seen their prices reduced.
The campaign began with a very low price hovered between 25 and 30 cents a kilo. “It could be somewhat higher for farmers who already have a regular store that sell it, but not too much,” explains adding that cooperatives have facilities to store the product “maybe could expect more to sell and been unable to make prices has been since February when the pear becoming scarce and it hovered 40 cents. ”
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