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Portuguese and Moroccan vegetables hit Spanish production

Another of the causes for the halt in Spanish production in the sector is the lack of profitability. Competition comes from more and more places and it's stronger in a way that producers in O Salnés, Spain, feel it's a titanic job to sell their tomatoes and onions, since, for instance, from Morocco and Portugal, they come with much lower prices.

Tons of small green pepper are coming from the north of Africa to be sold to clients of Padrón pepper and they get to Spain much cheaper than the ones getting out of the greenhouses in O Salnés, that have the seal "Herbón". Each product has its market, but there a lot of frauds trying to sell one thing as if it were the other.

There are more examples of this hard competition. The tomato was ruinous last year. How is it possible to compete with the one coming from Portugal with 0.45Euro per kilo tag, is the question for farmers.