Spain boasts the largest cultivated area of almond trees in the world, with more than 700,000 hectares (MAPA, 2018), but ranks third in terms of production. How can this be?
Actually it’s easy to explain: most of the country’s cultivated area of almond trees is comprised of traditional rainfed orchards and located in marginal areas featuring a low density of trees per hectare.
Over the last decade, however, the nut’s surging prices have given rise to intensive almond tree plantations characterised bya high density of trees per hectare and the employment of fertilisation and irrigation, yielding endless rows of white when the trees are in bloom. [Read more…] about Almond production remains stable in the long term, despite deficit irrigation