
The price of olive oil has gone up a lot, so much so that we’re seeing prices over nine euros a litre – something unheard of.
The hailstone downpour on the 29th of August wiped out 100% of the Rio Verde vega’s crop yield, says the Town Hall and other experts.
Whilst Almuñécar townsfolk marvelled at the size of the hailstones that fell during the Thursday downpour, up the valley farmers despaired.
British residents in Andújar in Jaén were behind the biggest ever hashish bust in that province when the Policía Nacional discovered a plantation of 900 plants in an old industrial installation.
Spare a thought for the farmers here on the coast who have been hit mighty hard by the continuous heavy rains and who say they are having the worst year of their lives.
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.