A wave of imported vegetables hit Croatian farmers

Resentment reigns among Croatian farmers. In the middle of the tourist season, they had to throw away their vegetable production as the traders offered them a very low purchase price. The undercutting of prices comes because of imports, we learn from the Slovenian website Finance. The EC activates the emergency brake on grain imports from Ukraine Croatian farmers are worried about the large import of vegetables, especially from third countries, where strict European rules on pesticides are not followed when growing vegetables. They believe that Croatian traders do not value local vegetables. A few days ago, the Vedrish farm from Stari Gradac threw away more than 10 tons of peppers and cucumbers because of low purchase prices that did not even cover production costs. Due to strong imports, Croatian traders did not look for local production for 10 days. Local produce is not valued by traders, but imports from Serbia and Albania are offered, although the difference in quality is ...