The current drought in Spain could provoke as many as 25 per cent of growers in the south-eastern region of Murcia to relocate to other parts of the country if it continues unabated. This was the stark claim from regional horticultural association Asaja Murcia, which claimed that the exodus might also take place in other similarly-parched regions, such as Andalusia and Valencia.
In a statement, Asaja Murcia's secretary general, Alfonso Gálvez Caravaca, claimed that the predicted emigration of farmers could lead to a depopulation of the region's countryside, which could cast 'serious doubt' over the future of Murcia's hugely important horticultural sector.
