The main French farmers' organization, the "Fédération nationale des syndicats d'agricoles Exploitants" (FNSEA), has twisted statistics to accuse the Spanish farmers to sell lettuce with waste.

As reported Hortoinfo the 28th, a study of the association Future Generations (Generations Futures) showed that 80 percent of the lettuce from France have leftover pesticides. Of the 31 analyzed lettuce, only one came from Spain, with a level of residues well below the maximum allowed. However, the FNSEA turns to the statistics, you forget that 94 percent of lettuce in which pesticide was found were from France, to accuse Spain for an innocent lettuce in which, moreover, levels Pesticide residues were well below the maximum residue limits (MRLs). This could be the height of cynicism agriculture.

The Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA) has requested an explanation from the FNSEA by these accusations against Spanish farmers. "The French obsession with the Spanish doping practice has come to our greens" have ironically from UPA, which considers "completely false" allegations.

Spanish agriculture is the last field that have turned the wrath of the French. And once again in a "completely unfounded", according to Spanish UPA organization.

Although 94 percent of the vegetables analyzed in the study are French, and despite not finding any illegal substance that exceeds the permitted limits, the president of the main French agricultural organization, Xavier Beulin, said that "this It is a problem that comes from Spain. "

"Once again return to accuse Spain of using banned substances," he lamented the secretary general of UPA, Lorenzo Ramos. "And it's a lie. Or use prohibited substances or rules are less strict in our country, "he noted. "If we are more productive maybe it's because we do things better."

UPA has appealed to the Minister of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina, to demand explanations again to his French counterpart order to stop the attacks on our agriculture.

This organization has also announced that it will ask the European Committee of Agricultural Organisations (COPA) to convene a bilateral Spain-France table to settle this conflict and curb "unfair accusations".

They also will address the FNSEA to claim a public correction to this "attack the honor of Spanish farmers". UPA has asked this organization to "stop continually to Spain aiming cause of all evils." Just as the attacks on Spanish trucks this summer, this attack comes on top in his opinion an "organized campaign" that seeks to promote the consumption of their own products at the expense of damaging Spanish products.