12 Feb, 2010 @ 12:24
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Hard harvest

ANDALUCIAN farmers are counting the cost of the wettest December in half a century, with an estimated 930 million euros of crops lost to the bad weather.

Olives, potatoes, asparagus, onions, artichokes and tomatoes were hardest hit.

“We’ve lost a lot. Autumn was super-dry so the sudden torrential rainfall knocked the harvest for six.”

Union boss Juan Antonio Villalba, of COAG, said: “We’ve lost a lot. Autumn was super-dry so the sudden torrential rainfall knocked the harvest for six.”

Full reservoirs at least guarantee irrigation for the next few years and cereal crops have benefited from wet weather.

“I believe we will get more and more used to such weather in the future,” said Villalba.

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving permanently to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press. He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

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