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Record the quantity of olives collected per person in the current campaign
25/01/2011
January 25, 2011
The Secretary general of the Union of small farmers and ranchers (UPA) of Andalusia, Agustín Rodríguez, has pointed out that the main novelty of the ongoing campaign of collection of the olives is that "thanks to the progress that has been and continues to produce in mechanization has reached historical levels of collection per person".
In questions of the journalists, RODRIGUEZ noted that the improvement of the climate and the lack of rains in recent days "has given a breather", allowing forward and pick up the fruit, and it has been estimated at about 60% the State in which the campaign of the olive is located in the Jaén province. "" Rodríguez has been placed on the levels of collection, "never before have had collected so much per person" and noted that these marks record "will translate into fewer actual days of collection".
