This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at La superficie agrícola valenciana ha caído un 8,5 por ciento en cinco años
The Valencian agricultural area has fallen by 8.5 per cent in five years
25/05/2009
May 25, 2009
In the past five years (from 2004 to 2008) there has been a decrease of 8.49% of the area of culture of the region of Valencia. Specifically it has gone from 752.500 hectares in 2004 to the 693.600 of the year 2008. Sources of the Ministry of Agriculture of Valencia stressed that this fall is part of "the general tone" and claimed that the descent is still smaller in recent times. In fact, 2005 for the 2006 season and the 2006 2007 se perdió a 2.94, and 2.97% from surface respectively, while from 2007 to 2008 the fall was already less, exactly a 1.67%.
By type of crop, which has suffered most this loss of surface has been the Tiger nut, with a decrease of 6.69 per cent, from 493 hectares in 2004 to 460 in 2008. On the climbs, "champion" par excellence is the kaki, a crop of fashion in recent times (especially in the comarca of La Ribera) given their high profitability. This fruit has experienced a growth of 60% in the area of culture, something that now concerns agricultural organizations because the excess growing of a product can cause saturation of the market with the consequent fall in the prices of the same.
