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Great festival of colors this spring in the Baix Empordà , despite the persistent drought that has plagued the Catalan territory for months.
As can be seen in this photographic report in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia, the poppy fields compete with their intense red with the bright yellow of the rapeseed crops
The wild poppy has been associated with agriculture since ancient times. Their life cycle is adapted to most cereal crops and they flower and seed before the harvest of the crops.
Although it is considered a weed, its bright red color fills the fields with life, as these images of the Baix Empordà show.
A curious aspect of the wild poppy is that it has many names, depending on each place where it grows. Apart from paparoles, it is also called, for example, rosella, babol, badabadoc, babola, caputxÃ, colet, gall, gallaret, lloca, paparota, paramà or names as resonant as pipiripip and quiquiriquic.
For its part, the yellow of the rapeseed competes (although they also complement each other) with the red poppy. Rapeseed can be profitable, so there are more and more areas of this crop that are used to produce fodder and biodiesel.
Today, in addition, the mechanization of work in the field has made the process of harvesting rapeseed faster and more productive.
