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Canary Island tomato growers this week were seeing red over an increase of 600% in Moroccan tomato exports to the European Union, which has not only flooded the market, but has also provoked a premature end to this year's Canarian exports.

A spokesman for the Federación de Exportadores de productos hortofructícolas (Federation of Exporters of Horticultural Fruity-type Products), says Morocco has exported 3,125 tons of tomatoes, affecting profits negatively and harming agreements the association have made with the EU.

After weather threatened the sector in January, exports had been on the increase this year, despite the fact that the area devoted to the cultivation of tomatoes had decreased in recent years - by 1,898 hectares or 65 percent, from 4,830 in 1994 to 2,932 in 2004 - and difficulty in finding anyone to pick them.

Los tomateros canarios denuncian que Marruecos ha hundido el mercado europeo
Tomato exports Tenerife decreased 54% in 10 years

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