Asking for more support to the national product
Spain: ASAJA asks consumers to not buy Argentinian lemons
The entity asks consumers to defend the Spanish production, underlining its quality and recalling the "terrible crisis" and "the need to retaliate against YPF expropriation".
In a press note, ASAJA assured that the Argentinian lemon presents, this year, "inferior amounts, of inferior quality", claiming a rise in inspections on the tags.
"These products lose freshness because they take 40 days to arrive by boat and in our country we have enough production to supply the whole of Europe", defended the president of ASAJA-Alicante, Eladio Aniorte.
The agricultural association highlighted that "third party countries are conscious of the prestige of the Spanish lemons and "sell their products as if they were from here, but that's a fraud against consumers".
According to Aniorte, it's also necessary to raise control on some Argentinian operators, "that introduce citrus in other countries, like Uruguay, to export to the European Union and escape a possible boycott".
These measures are considered, by the organization, as absolutely "essential" in face of the "alarming crisis" affecting the sector.
That's why ASAJA claims that the European Union takes a position in defence "of what's ours" in face of the expropriation happening in the Latin American countries.
"We should act strong, defend our country's production and support farming, a strategic sector able to generate richness and many working jobs", added Aniorte.
Source: Asaja Alicante