{"id":36792,"date":"2024-02-25T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T09:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/befve.com\/news\/water-shortage-casts-shadow-over-new-season-in-granada\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:23:06","slug":"water-shortage-casts-shadow-over-new-season-in-granada","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/befve.com\/en\/news\/water-shortage-casts-shadow-over-new-season-in-granada\/","title":{"rendered":"La p\u00e9nurie d&#8217;eau jette une ombre sur la nouvelle saison \u00e0 Grenade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>The results for 2022\/23 in the province of Granada \u2013 which usually grows 60% of Spain\u2019s green asparagus crop \u2013 show a 26% slump in output compared to the previous season. The volume in Granada for October 2022 to September 2023 totalled just 23,000 tons, which was also 24% lower than the average of 30,000 tons during the previous few years of relatively stable production levels. According to ASAJA (an agricultural association for young farmers), this was despite the fact that the 6,500 ha planted area in 2022\/23 was slightly above the average for the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Production value down by \u20ac28 million<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to Europa Press in October, ASAJA Granada board member Jos\u00e9 G\u00e1miz was reported as attributing the lower crop to various factors. Among these were frosts in January and rains at the end of May which shortened the main harvest, which usually runs from March till early June, by two weeks. A labour shortage was a further complication. Producer prices started to rise as a result of the lower supply, reaching \u20ac5.5\/kg, before settling at around \u20ac3\/kg for the rest of the spring harvest. Based on the average price of \u20ac4\/kg for the second, smaller harvest in October, the organisation estimates the 7,000 ton reduction in this year\u2019s production compared to the previous season amounted to a loss of around \u20ac28 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Low river flows limiting access to water for irrigation<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain\u2019s ongoing drought is taking a toll not just on asparagus but also on the province\u2019s other main crops. ASAJA says river levels are too low and access is very restricted in areas such as Poniente, which mainly grows asparagus. G\u00e1miz said areas around the Los Bermejales Reservoir and Cac\u00edn river had been banking on access to about 5,000 cubic metres of water per hectare but at times this year it had been just 600. This was particularly the case when rivers such as the Cac\u00edn and Arroyo Milanos were at volumes making it almost impossible to maintain their environmental flow (the minimum needed to maintain a waterway\u2019s ecological health) if used for irrigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid the uncertainty about water, the provisional 2023\/24 forecasts were gloomy. However, the situation could improve depending on how the winter unfolds, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lack of irrigation water saw Granada\u2019s 2023\/24 green asparagus season kick off in October with a gloomy outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36688,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news_categories":[101],"class_list":["post-36792","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_categories-production-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>La p\u00e9nurie d&#039;eau jette une ombre sur la nouvelle saison \u00e0 Grenade - Befve &amp; Co<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/befve.com\/en\/news\/water-shortage-casts-shadow-over-new-season-in-granada\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"La p\u00e9nurie d&#039;eau jette une ombre sur la nouvelle saison \u00e0 Grenade - Befve &amp; 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