It’s amazing the difference between what the big supermarket chains pay farmers for their fresh fruit and veg and the price on the supermarket shelves – and arguably unjust.
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The Rules Reservoir and its Lack of Irrigation Infrastructure
by Martin Myall •
We’re in a drought with not a drop of rain and seawater is threatening to seep into irrigation wells near the coast – farmers aren’t happy.
Water Protest in Almuñécar
by Martin Myall •
Well over a hundred farmers belonging to the various irrigation associations in Almuñécar turned out to protest in the Town Hall Square. Some sources put the turn out as “several hundred.”
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.
Cucumber Mountain
by Editor •
Anybody that strolled onto the beach at Carchuna would probably have done a double back flip, as we did, when they came across the incredible amount of discarded cucumbers on the beach… but we’re not talking about the odd slice left over from a cucumber sandwich, nor the peelings from a salad, but the 25 million kilos of surplus cucumbers that were dumped in protest.