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The old Plaza de Almeria will stage next Saturday, 13 February, the second edition of the day of the tomato, an initiative that wants to highlight the prominence of the product the Almeria agriculture star.
The event, that was held last year with the huge success of participation and assistants, want to become an annual reference of this vegetable. The province of Almeria is a leader in the production of tomato, with more than one billion pounds each year.
Activity, organized by local Almeria companies in the fruit and vegetable sector with the collaboration of media, It has the collaboration of the city of Almería, Provincial and Cajamar.
Alhóndiga La Unión is one of the many fruit and vegetable marketing companies province involved providing tomatoes in this edition. Companies will be attending thousands of kilos of tomato available, It will be distributed in plastic bags. The price of each bag, of symbolic, will be of 1 Euro. All the money raised will go to Cruz Roja Almeria.
The activities of the Tomato day they will begin at the 10:30 h. Attendees can enjoy first hour a healthy breakfast and more a snack whose main ingredient will also be tomato.
Both the breakfast - with a slice of bread with tomato and oil of the mill in Canjayar and Biosabor tomato juice- as the snack - bread with tomato paste from the company Primaflor - cost 1 Euro. The collection of both tastings will go entirely to ANDA (Association of children with disabilities in Almería).
Among the planned activities will be concerts, musical performances for children and an exhibition about the cycle of tomato -from the planting of the seed until the product is put on sale -, as well as a sample of the different varieties that this vegetable are produced in Almería.
Drawings will be held throughout the morning, In addition, tomato and oil and many surprises for attendees. The whole event will be broadcast live by the voice of Almeria website in streaming.
SCHEDULE of activities approximate
• 10:30 hours will be the brass band to the old square with body (the event mascot).
• 10:35 hours, inauguration.
• 10:45 hours, healthy breakfast for only 1 euro to benefit of ANDA.
• 11:00 hours, Action for children from the cuckoo stage, Sing you.
• 12:30 hours, entrega logo of gold farmers in Almeria.
The red gold that Almeria tomato has become was not result of or resulting from the accident if not random the effort, work and intelligence of thousands and thousands of Almeria with its innovative capacity and its efforts have achieved that Almería is the Capital world of the tomato. And to honor that effort of those farmers who give the best of themselves, This installment of badges will be held.
• 13:00 hour concert of group nights of Candela.
• From the 14:00 hours, tasting a beer and a snack by 1 euro to benefit of ANDA
The top of the tomato route.
The Provincial Association of hospitality (ASHAL) It has also joined the initiative. Five bars of the Centre of Almería shall draw up for that day caps whose main ingredient is tomato. Taste restaurant will be a cod and tomato Raf jam crocanti, the Torreluz new Tavern will make a traditional gazpacho, Tavern our Earth will have between their covers of a tomato with smoked herring tartar, Ciao Bella Bar will offer its customers a Mediterranean tartar and the hopscotch Bar will cook a bicolor salmorejo.