date:Nov 27, 2018
A mango seed weevil pest, the first of its kind in Europe, detected for the first time in 2013 and again in 2015 in the municipality of Vlez-Mlaga, threatened the cultivation of mangoes in the region of La Axarqua; the largest producer of this subtropical fruit in Spain.
According to the Councilor for Agriculture, Mara Santana, the previous government team (of the PP) did nothing to tackle this problem, and when the new team arrived in 2015, a farm was already in deplorable conditions.
Santana