BBVA awards sustainability prizes to three Catalan rural producers

BarcelonaBBVA has recognized three Catalan rural producers in the sixth edition of its awards for the best sustainable producers. These are Alta Alella, Viñas de Olivardots, and Font Rovira Agrícola. The recognition has also gone to five other producers from Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, the Valencian Community, and Galicia. In total, more than 800 applications have been received for these awards since their launch.

The winners represent initiatives that promote responsible production models, generate economic opportunities in the region, protect the natural environment, and contribute to the life and activities of communities. All of them "are examples of how agri-food entrepreneurship contributes to transforming rural areas from a sustainable, innovative perspective deeply rooted in the region," according to the bank.

With this edition's verdict, there are now 56 winners from all over Spain. The prize: being part of a dissemination plan to share their stories throughout Spain and seeing their products included in a recipe prepared by the Roca brothers.

Among the ten winners, this year's award for the best young initiative was presented for the first time. It was endowed with 5,000 euros. It went to the winery from the Alella Designation of Origin, Alta Alella. In Catalonia, the Vinyes d'Olivardots winery and the organic olive oil producer Font Rovira Agrícola (Can Font), both from the province of Girona, also received awards this year.

The other winners are the Valle y Vega cooperative (Granada); the Mare Monte Setas mushroom cannery (Pontevedra); Entrecabritos (Teruel), specializing in confit suckling goat; the Barbastro pink tomato from Santo Domingo SC in Menorca (Balearic Islands); Mountain pasture cheese from La Lleldiria (Cantabria); fresh blueberries from Arándanos La Peña (Asturias); and broccoli from Agrícola Marvic (Alicante).