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Morocco allows strawberry harvesters to come back from Huelva Every year, thousands of Moroccan women travel across to Spain to help with the strawberry harvesting in the province of Huelva in southern Spain. This year, there were fears that, due to the political situation between the two countries, Morocco would not open the border and the women would be stranded in Spain. Currently, there are 12,600 women picking the strawberries in the region. Yesterday, Moroccan and Spanish officials came to a compromise to allow the women to cross back home after June 15 when the border will reopen. Euro...

Cameroon Poultry Farmers Urge Europe to Ease Trade Restrictions Cameroon Poultry Farmers Urge Europe to Ease Trade Restrictions May 7, 2021 May 5, 2021 YAOUNDE, CAMEROON VOA | Cameroon’s poultry farmers and sellers are calling on authorities at home and in Europe to loosen trade restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic and avian influenza,?which have more than doubled the price of chicken. Scores of chicken sellers in Cameroon’s capital held a one-hour sit-in Monday at the Mvog-Ada chicken market to protest the continued restrictions, which have pushed all but about 25 sell...

May 7, 2021 Share Cameroon’s poultry farmers and sellers are calling on authorities at home and in Europe to loosen trade restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic and avian influenza, which have more than doubled the price of chicken. Scores of chicken sellers in Cameroon’s capital held a one-hour sit-in Monday at the Mvog-Ada chicken market to protest the continued restrictions, which have pushed all but about 25 sellers — out of 300 last year — out of business. One of those remaining chicken sellers is 33-year-old single mother Patricia Lamou, who says provi...

Calvados sales drop 17% in 2020 15th March, 2021 by Owen Bellwood Sales of Calvados fell 17% last year as the impact of Covid-19 in France offset double-digit growth in the Netherlands and Japan. Calvados sales grew in Russia, the Netherlands and Japan New figures released by the Interprofessional Association of Cider-Based Controlled Appellations (IDAC) found that 4.2 million bottles of Calvados were sold last year, representing a drop of 17% compared with 2019. Exports represented 55% of all Calvados sales, with 43.5% of bottles sold in the European Union (excluding France) and 4% sold in...

The Leader Newspaper By Andrew Atkinson Tens of thousands of lemons are being left to rot in the Vega Baja – highlighted by the paltry sum offered of 0.03cents a KILO! This week ONE lemon purchased in Lancashire cost 63p. Enter Los Montesinos a Vega Baja town and witness the lemon groves aplenty that remains to be gathered, due to not being cost effective, with labour crops costing in the region of €5-€8 to be picked. The farming industry has been hit following the closure of the hostelry industry in Spain during the last year, due to the coronavirus pandemic. ASAJA-Alic...