Mallorca paprika nearly went extinct

The pimentón de Mallorca is a traditional paprika from the Balearic Islands made from a local variety of pepper called tap de cortí. Its cultivation declined from the 1970s with the arrival of more productive plants, pushing the authorities to classify it among the species threatened by genetic erosion. It finally took nine years of administrative procedure for it to obtain its PDO in 2020, the year when its production reached 30 tonnes spread over 13 hectares.