Background
Background
In Navarre, the lands which constitute the axis or corridor of the river Ebro, from Mendavia to Cortes, have been and still are areas which produce vegetables. Among them, the probably most cultivated one is the artichoke, which digs its roots into the far away past. The encyclopaedia of Navarre dates the existence of this cultivation in Tudela in the times of the Arabic domination, although without giving an exact date. The product was being sold until the well into the twentieth century in the local markets. The installation of the canning industry stimulated the expansion of the cultivation, which began to occupy a significant surface among the irrigation crops of the region of Navarre.
The tenacity of the farmers of Tudela have led them, after successive selection years, to the achievement of a type of artichoke cultivation known as "Blanca de Tudela", which has become the vegetative reproduction material most widely used in Spain. In fact, a significant number of farmers of the area produce, apart from the food item which is the main profitable and common use of this plant (the artichokes as we eat them) the "rootstocks", or plantation material. This material is composed by the cuttings of the underground part of the plant, which can be obtained when the harvest is over, during the summer.
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