Spanish vegetables

Leaded by the unemployment rate the highest in Europe (21%) and growth in a poor state of Spain did not need that. The ban, in several European countries, to import Spanish fruit and vegetables – or just cucumbers – as a result of food poisoning and deaths attributed to the presence of a strain of E.coli is a major blow for the country, including the fruit and vegetable production represents about 2% of GDP.

The situation is even worse is that she experienced as an injustice felt by Spanish farmers since doubts were cast on Wednesday, the origin of the poisoning. Germany – The first country to have reported cases of death – has indicated that cucumbers produced in Spain were ultimately not in question. A rebound pushing Madrid to consider seeking compensation in Berlin for the damage done to its farmers.

Because the damage is done. “Now there are supermarkets in Germany have put a sign ‘Here we do not sell Spanish products,’” laments Jorge Brotons, President FEPEX, the largest union of Spanish growers. It evaluates to 200 million euros per week the shortfall caused by the crisis, because “hundreds of tons of products that we throw.”

Not that tomatoes

Leaded by the unemployment rate the highest in Europe (21%) and growth in a poor state of Spain did not need that. The ban, in several European countries, to import Spanish fruit and vegetables – or just cucumbers – as a result of food poisoning and deaths attributed to the presence of a strain of E.coli is a major blow for the country, including the fruit and vegetable production represents about 2% of GDP.

The situation is even worse is that she experienced as an injustice felt by Spanish farmers since doubts were cast on Wednesday, the origin of the poisoning. Germany – The first country to have reported cases of death – has indicated that cucumbers produced in Spain were ultimately not in question. A rebound pushing Madrid to consider seeking compensation in Berlin for the damage done to its farmers.

Because the damage is done. “Now there are supermarkets in Germany have put a sign ‘Here we do not sell Spanish products,’” laments Jorge Brotons, President FEPEX, the largest union of Spanish growers. It evaluates to 200 million euros per week the shortfall caused by the crisis, because “hundreds of tons of products that we throw.”

Not that tomatoes

In Spain, the fruit and vegetables was so far one of the few to have been relatively unscathed by the recession. Vegetable exports earned more than 9 billion euros last year, an increase of 3% over 2009, according to the annual report of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture published last March. And alone, the sector accounts for nearly 300,000 jobs in the country. The economy of some regions depend very heavily: in Murcia or Almeria province, for example, over 60% of the production of fruits and vegetables for export, against 33% nationally. “These are regions where it also shapes social life,” reads the website of the FEPEX.

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Leaded by the unemployment rate the highest in Europe (21%) and growth in a poor state of Spain did not need that.

It says Spain's unemployment is 21%.

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It has written the words ' poor state of Spain did not need that'.

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