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After an exceptional year in sales in 2020, the Spanish retail sector is becoming increasingly competitive, while trying to find a balance between high input costs and improved efficiency, during a period of high inflation that once again gives price the leading role in purchasing decisions.

Competition by other crops continues to force Spain’s fodder area down. In MY 2022/23 the dry spring is anticipated to have negatively affected yields in non-irrigated land. On the processor side, energy prices will keep forcing margins down.

Spain is the largest grower of Bt corn in the EU-28 and it has traditionally defended a science-based approach to agricultural biotechnology. The unusually warm conditions in summer 2015...

Spain is one of the top tourism destinations in the world, with increasing numbers of tourists every year, boosting demand for meals in the HRI sector.

In 2015, Spain imported $1.9 billion of agricultural, fish and forest products from the United States. For the third year in a row, Spain’s economy is expected to continue to grow at a modest pace...