More and more fruit farmers are paying out from their own pockets private security guards to watch over their tropical-fruit orchards.
Tag Archive for chirimoya
Farmers Abandon Town Hall Protest
by Vivienne Hughes •
A group of Almuñécar farmers staged a sit-in within the Town Hall in protest over a lack of support following massive crop losses. The sit in, which lasted two days, received much support locally, both from political parties as well as locals.
Torrecuevas Fiestas This Weekend
by Anne Eastwood •
So you might have thought that the UK and the USA had the monopoly on Harvest Festivals … well, you’re wrong!
Telltale Wallet
by Martin Myall •
A Motril farmer found somebody’s wallet on his chirimoya plantation; unfortunately he couldn’t find his fruit.
Japan and Subtropical Fruit
by Martin Myall •
A Japanese film crew have been in La Herradura for a documentary on subtropical fruit in Spain. They have been visiting Finca San Ramón. and filming chirimoya, mango, guayaba, avocado, carambola and papaya plantations
IV Feria de los Tropicales
by Martin Myall •
The now empty supermarket, which was the old Hiper, but was occupied by Eroski until it closed down, was put into use again to host the IV Feria de los Tropicales.
Still No Rain
by Editor •
There has no been no rain to speak of in the whole of Granada, let alone its coast, in the last four months and the out-of-season, high temperatures are playing havoc with the chirimoya production.
Counting the Blessings
by Martin Myall •
Whatever is covered later on in the Almuñécar section, it is probably a good idea to take a stock check of what we have. You see, it doesn’t matter whether you came here 40, 30, 20, 10, or just 5 years ago – Almuñécar is still very much a privileged place to live in.
Crop Theft
by Héloïse Nolan •
Motril’s chirimoya ‘agriculturists’ (farmers to you and me but a grand word none-the-less), have been having a bad time of it of late. As soon as the chirimoya season has got underway the agriculturists (sounds good doesn’t it!) have been noticing that they are not the only ones harvesting their own crops.
Fruit Crop Theft
by Editor •
Chirimoya farmers in the valley are asking for help to tackle a wave of crop thefts. They are, as can be imagined, sick and tired of working all year to produce a crop only for it to be stolen off the trees before it is even ripe.