Like other farmers in Spain, Miguel Angel Garcia has abandoned grapes and grains to grow pistachio nuts, a more lucrative crop that can better cope with the droughts that have become more frequent and intense. According to the agriculture ministry, the amount of land devoted to pistachio trees in Spain has jumped nearly five-fold since 2017, making Spain the biggest pistachio grower in Europe in terms of surface area, and the world's fourth-largest.
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00:00This is the fruit that has not been pollinated, the chinche has been chopped.
00:13Most of the fruit is good, most of the fruit is good.
00:19My vineyards gave me 1,500-2,000 kilos per hectare.
00:30And that, at the price of the grapes, did not even give me my daily wages.
00:35I mean, I didn't even pay for my work.
00:37However, the pistachio is a crop that, despite the fact that in recent years,
00:43since we have been with the war in Ukraine, the average price has dropped,
00:48but it still has an interesting price.
01:19If you get into the world of pistachio thinking about getting rich,
01:23normally, in agriculture, only the one who has already become rich becomes rich.
01:28But no, working in agriculture, it is difficult to become rich.
01:33It is a business that can give you a good performance if you have a good exploitation.
01:40But it is true that in the current scenario of increasing temperatures and so on,
01:45if a crop is resistant, it is the pistachio, logically,
01:48because its starting conditions are adapted to desert or semi-desert climates.
01:53Therefore, before increasing temperatures and precipitation drops,
01:57it is a crop that, compared to others, resists much better.
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