Agroaldea
Colombia imported piece is sold on the market to Candem 1,25 the pounds 1,42 EUR.
The London Borough of Camden (United Kingdom) It is famous for its market and the alternative life of its inhabitants. Also, He is best known for hosting one of the most picturesque street markets of the city and the event associated with alternative culture. It's a neighborhood visited by tourists.
In a greengrocer near the shore you can see fruits of the most diverse places in the world: tree tomato, rambutan, nabo daikon, mangos baby, mamey, They earned, carambola, physalis, green avocados, tomatillo Mexico, blue tomato, litchi, granadilla and tunos, figs figs leads the peaks.
but theor more striking is the selling price of tunos, which is a real treat. TO 1,25 pounds part (1,42 EUR each). The price exceeds avocado (between 1,15 and 4,40 pounds per kilo, depending on the variety and origin) and even the Spanish blood orange (0,45 pounds per kilo).
In addition, It's not about canaries tunos. assume, Between other reasons, it is because our production does not begin until summer. Tuneras in our territory bloom between April and May and harvested between June and August and even later, if they are the result of the second flowering. Which exhibit in the London market are imported from Colombia tunos.
The fact draws attention because in Canary consumption and cultivation has decreased dramatically in recent decades. And that during a time were highly prized varieties rascal 'muscatel', or 'white’ and 'yellow'.
Las Tunas is a crass who came to the Canaries in the sixteenth century, between 1548 and 1570, hand of the Spanish conquistadors. However, It is one of the species included in the Spanish catalog Invasive Alien Species, Ministry of Environment.
Has a special adaptation to grow in warm areas, ASAL of most of the world. On the peninsula it is mainly in Extremadura, in peninsular Southeast and Andalusia. Also in the Balearic Islands.