Euroweekly news today reports that “TROPS, the avocado and mango cooperative from Axarquía, Spain, has announced a partial relocation of its packaging process to Tavira, Portugal, in response to water scarcity in the Axarquía region. The cooperative plans to double the size of its production centre in Tavira from 4,000 to 8,000 square metres, citing significant growth in the Portuguese region”. This newsbite is worrying in that the Axarquía region is planning a desalination plant to be ready in 2027, and yet still Trops is preferring to head west, where water scarcity is just as much an issue as is in Spain.
Avocado/ mango producer leaves Spain for Algarve “due to water woes”
Avocados have been described as "the green gold causing environmental havoc". They have not just drained Portugal's aquifers (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/22/avocados-violence-mexico-united-states/)
