The projects that were selected aim to attract young people to that part of Portugal with one of the region’s most emblematic fruits.
Cooperative chairman, Eduardo Tavares, told Lusa News Agency that these new investors “are focussed on innovative practices and a more intensive kind of production” which should, “triple the current 60 to 80 tons a year (in this region) within six years”.
The young farmers are going to pay a symbolic amount of €250 a hectare for 20 years according to the agreements signed today with the cooperative, which will expand the size of the cherry orchards by 25 percent.