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Faced with the drought, producers are in difficulty. In the strawberry sector, competition is fierce with Spanish farmers.
Many strawberries consumed in France are produced in Spain. Often chosen because they are findable except summer seasons at prices defiant competition, all these strawberries are produced in the warm region of Andalusia (Spain). huge greenhouses Andalusian of Huelva300,000 tons of strawberries come out every year. The problem is that most of the bodies of water that are used for irrigation are illegal and the Spanish government wants to act to put an end to this way of proceeding.
All the water used comes from the Doñana National Park (Spain), protected by Unesco and home to thousands of birds that come to drink regularly in these multiple waterways. Reprimanded by the European Union, the Andalusian authorities want to divert a river to allow farmers to continue producing. Some brands are dissociating themselves and now refuse to buy strawberries from Huelva.
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