ALMERIA COAG figure 200 Hectares AFFECTED.

The agrarian organization COAG has warned that the 'virus of the spoon’ ha wholesale “harshly” tomato crops in the region of Nijar in recent days, so that “are more than 200 hectares which have had to be torn off completely and many more are affected by a percentage ranging from 20 and the 50 percent”.

COAG regrets that “The most serious is that in most cases farmers had planted seeds resistant to attack by this virus, according advertise their own homes seed”, so it has criticized the “fraud” in these companies incurred, announcing resistant products' virus spoon’ “when in fact they are not”.

In this sense, the cost of planting one hectare with these seeds amounts to 6.000 EUR, plus the costs of raising them in the nursery. That is why in recent days, posters seed houses that announce the alleged tolerance of their products to the virus have you appeared in the San Isidro and Campohermoso with graffiti in which denounces this “misleading advertising”.

“From COAG we understand the discomfort of these producers and support their allegations”, says the agricultural organization specifying that many farmers have approached the office of Nijar and have moved their “discomfort” the local committee of COAG.

Like this, to contact the seed houses to ask for explanations, “these are inhibited from any liability”, what adds that “We have heard that their seeds are tolerant to the virus, i.e., who may suffer their attack or not, when in their catalogs and advertisements generously detailing the benefits of seeds that, secure, They are resistant to this virus”, point.

COAG Almería recommends to farmers suffering from any incidence of viral infections that immediately come to the offices of the organization and fill in the part of damage, essential to quantify the total damage and require future liabilities.