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By Manuel Flores
Raspberries, blueberries,
blackberries: these are the new
range of berries categorie which
demand is increasing in the
European market and, mainly,
in United Kingdom, where the
business in 2009 reached 272
million pounds, according to
Kantar Worldpanel, with
25,000 new British families
like new consumers of these
products.
The producers of Huelva
have taken advantage of their
long experience in the straw-
Spain is linked
to the berries tendency
Spain responds to the demand of berries in Europe and it is on the first place
like European supplier with Huelva like the main zone with 955 hectares of
raspberries and 763 hectares of blueberries and with Onubafruit like the
company leader with 8,600 tons.
berry to increase the number
of hectares in these
specialties and at the present
day they have 955
hectares of raspberries and
763 hectares of blueberries
and a tendency to increase
the surface in the next years.
Huelva is the Spanish
reference of the specialties of
berries. It monopolizes 80-90
per cent of the raspberry production
where the Onubafruit
company has a supply of 4,500
tons. The raspberry business
is managed by 20 companies,
although only Onubafruit mo-
nopolizes almost 50 per cent
of the commerce in Spain. The
companies expect to reach
1,000 hectares after this campaign.
Fast growth
But while the growth of the
raspberry is stable, the
blueberries and the blackberries
have a good future.
The blueberry will increase
this year 10 per cent. Euroberry
and Onubafruit are the
main companies of this
product in Spain with more
than 1,000 tons. The rest of
companies are still growing
and they do not produce important
volumes of product.
The blackberry is another
product that is increasing although
in the last campaign
the surface decreased 18 per
cent being 60 hectares.
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