Jun
11
Spain consumes 120000 tonnes of kiwis per year
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Spain consumes 120,000 tonnes of kiwis per year
The planted acreage continues growing and the Association of Kiwi Producers from Galicia itself requested lands to expand the plantations, as Spain consumes more than 120,000 tonnes per year.
The entity’s data confirm the fruit’s potential, which has three times as much vitamin C as an orange and was introduced in Spain through Galicia. “Of the 120 million kilos consumed in Spain, with an average of three kilos per person and year, only a tenth is produced here,” indicates Martín Fernández. A little over half of the domestic harvest takes place in Galicia, which is why the Galician market is also the best supplied.
The founder of Zeltia and Pescanova, Fernández López, and the agronomist Carlos del Río, planted the first hundred kiwi trees in Galicia 44 years ago in a little plantation in Gondomar, although the crop’s expansion did not truly take off until 1982.
Source: Lavozdegalicia
Publication date: 6/11/2013
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