COAG denounces the presence of imported potatoes amid the new national potato season

The Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos (COAG) denounced this Tuesday that Spanish supermarkets are betting on importing potatoes from Israel and Egypt in the middle of the new potato campaign of Andalusia and Murcia Region, which puts at risk 4.2 million hours in rural Spain and throws an additional 3,376 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by international transport, equivalent to the emissions of 10,683 flights b…

COAG denounces the presence of imported potatoes amid the new national potato season

COAG denounces the presence of imported potatoes amid the new national potato season

In a statement, the agrarian organization has lamented that "while the new Spanish potato begins to leave the countryside with all its freshness and quality", the big distribution chains bet on potatoes imported from Israel and Egypt (80,000 tons in 2024). According to the head of COAG potato, Alberto Duque, it is "a calculated strategy to delay the purchase of the national product, to saturate the market and force down the prices in origin." In…

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