Spanish Farmers Are DITCHING Olives For Pistachios.. Here's Why

Spanish Farmers Are DITCHING Olives For Pistachios.. Here's Why

Welcome back to Down On The Farm, today on the channel we are going to find out details about Spanish farmers ditch olives for pistachios in bid to survive + other related news. They’re calling it green gold, the cash crop that could rescue one of Spain’s poorest regions from decline and depopulation as farmers plough up wheatfields and vineyards and replant them with pistachios.
With farmers earning between 65 and 85 cents for each kilo of olives they produce, and around 65 cents for grapes, pistachios, which fetch €6-8 a kilo, are in a different league. “I used to farm cereals, olives and vines but I’ve abandoned them all in order to grow pistachios,” says Gustavo Adolfo Gálvez, who has a pistachio plantation near Toledo in Castilla-La Mancha in central Spain. “[They are] a lot more profitable and cheap to produce, and it’s meant a lot more farmers can survive.”

In 1986, the Castilla-La Mancha regional government set up a research project to look for alternative crops its farmers could grow, says José Francisco Couceiro López of the regional institute for agricultural research and development. The next stage, he says, was to educate farmers through a series of courses and open days. In 2013, Couceiro López co-wrote a book on pistachio growing that has become a bestseller in Spain and Latin America. “The biggest handicap is that farmers who plant pistachios have to wait at least seven years before their first decent harvest,” he says, though clearly many are convinced it’s worth the wait, especially as demand continues to outstrip supply. Last year, Spain harvested 2,800 tonnes of pistachios from 70,000 hectares (173,000 acres), nearly all in La Mancha, but it’s still a newcomer in a market dominated by California, Iran and Turkey, which between them account for nearly 90% of world production. Stay tuned to know more on Spanish farmers ditch olives for pistachios in bid to survive and other related news.

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[adnanboke]

Greetings from Siirt, Türkiye. How many meters apart are these trees planted?

[lagmfaresi]

I try Iranian and American pistachios but best one is Turkish..

[melikazarrinkar]

Iranian Pistachios are not good you said? :D such a funny statement. To sell your region you don't need to bring down others. In addition, Iranian Pistachio is so famous and good thats not good for your image.

[adelkebaish]

Hello
I have few pistachio root stocks and I need to graft them
please let me know how can I get scion wood for grafting
thank you very much

[marcus]

Pistachio is very healthy - no wonder its rise in consumption, it has the best ratio of saturated and unsaturated fats.

[watcher]

No offense but spanish is of the US categorie thus a Hybrid from eucalyptus stem.
the product needs heavy machinery manufacturing and needs drying less than a 6 hrs.
the product looks nice but has low taste and harder bite thus of lower quality.plantations require loww man power and grow faster with highre yields.TASTE wise you can compare EASILY with the non hybrid IRANIAN and Italian etc .

[estebancorral]

The Irianians should market better their pistachios. It is not the Spanish farmers bringing down the Iranians. The Iranians do that all enough on their own. China should be a good market for Iran.