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With the grenades in hand, ready to “break” them as the custom says to happily enter the new year, it seems that most are, hoping that in 2021 it will bring them good luck and “erase” all the bad memories of this year. .
At least that’s clear from the grenade sales that have been launched, with the producers saying they are almost sold out! More than four thousand tons of table grenades have already been sold in Greece and abroad.
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Tradition wants a grenade to break
Tradition, which comes from ancient times and symbolizes, with the breaking of the pomegranate, rejuvenation, good luck, wealth, a positive development, this year is in the foreground as never before and the pomegranate in addition to its antioxidant role has assumed this symbolism of the “new page”, he explained to the radio station of the Athens / Macedonia News Agency “Agency 104.9 FM”, Panagiotis Athanasiadis, director of the Agricultural Cooperative of the Drama Producers Group.
“This year, sales compared to other years broke all records and the pomegranate has already reached consumers both in our country and abroad, where they even prefer it in relation to productions from other countries, because they know that the microclimate of our country is ideal, the air, the sea, the temperature, the sun makes our pomegranates better and why not more gourmets! ”, Says the director of ASOP Drama, which exports this agricultural product to 16 countries.
Greek pomegranates in Sweden
However, Scandinavians are proving to be the most impatient, if not to break, but certainly to enjoy their pomegranates, based on exports, as they rushed early this year to supply the Greek pomegranate from Sweden, according to Athanasiadis. be first on the list. The Agios Athanasios Drama Agricultural Cooperative was founded in 2005 and is recognized as a Producer Organization (Group). Throughout Greece, more than 1000 ASOP team growers cultivate 10,000 of the 20,000 hectares of pomegranate that are cultivated, in total in our country, with the contract farming model. “Recently, in fact, in the list of countries that import our pomegranates, another large market was added, that of the Netherlands,” noted Mr. Athanasiadis.
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