The agricultural campaign in Lleida starts with 712 temporary reception places distributed in 11 facilities in the regions of Lleida, Segrià, Noguera, Pla d'Urgell, Urgell, and Garrigues. The reinforcement comes in a year when stone fruit will grow and the sector takes for granted that it will need more labor during the harvest.
The tension is in that intersection of figures. While the projected production increases by 13.5% in Catalonia and approaches 404,000 tons in Lleida, the public and subsidized accommodation network once again becomes a central piece to absorb the arrival of seasonal workers in a few weeks and regulate their access to work and basic services.
Fira de Lleida will open on June 3rd with 100 places until the end of August
The main facility financed by the Paeria, the Government, and the Diputación will once again be set up in pavilion three of Fira de Lleida. It will open on June 3rd and will remain operational until the end of August with 100 temporary reception places.
This facility will offer showers, laundry, food, and social and health support. Added to this network is CATemporers 1, already operational in the Caparrella area of Lleida, with 32 places, a dining room, lockers, and employment support.
In addition, the Paeria maintains apartments managed through EMAU with capacity for 90 people and reserves four emergency places at the Jericó hostel. In Segrià, the Seròs hostel has 40 places and will operate continuously from May until the end of September.
During the first fortnight of June, the Single Labor Intermediation Office will be located at MercoLleida. Afterwards, it will move to Fira de Lleida to concentrate social attention, information, and resource referral in the same environment where some of the places are being set up.
TRONCO incorporates 87 facilitators for a campaign with more fruit
Labor intermediation will be coordinated with the Municipal Employment Institute Salvador Seguí, the Public Employment Service, the Department of Labor, third-sector entities, unions, and agricultural companies. The objective is to connect the arrival of workers with the real hiring needs of the campaign.
In parallel, TRONCO has hired 87 socio-labor facilitators, 10 more than in the previous campaign, with a maximum subsidy allocation of 1.7 million euros. The Department of Agriculture is also working with the agri-food sector on the bases for the third call for aid for investments in accommodation for seasonal workers.
Carol Aixut, head of seasonal workers for Unió de Pagesos, has explained that the agricultural sector needs seasonal workers and that demand grows when harvests such as stone fruit and pears overlap.
"There are about 2,200 people who have come from Colombia to work during the campaign. For a time they are here working and then they return to their country" - Carol Aixut, head of seasonal workers, Unió de Pagesos
The forecasts from Afrucat and the Department of Agriculture point to a 13.5% increase in stone fruit production in Catalonia for the 2026 campaign. In Lleida, the estimate is around 404,000 tons, 14% more than in 2025.
Within that increase, nectarine stands out, with 15.4% more, flat nectarine, with 17.7%, and flat peach, with 14.8%.