New Zealand growing cheaper fruit and vegetables due to 'superb' growing conditions

Idyllic growing conditions have led to fresh fruit and vegetable prices dropping 25 percent compared to this time last year - and they are now at prices not seen for several years. United Fresh New Zealand president Jerry Prendergast said for the past 10 months, apart from a late summer drought in Horowhenua, growing conditions around the country have been "incredible". Rain and warm sunshine have arrived "enqueue". "We're seeing again the ability to plant vegetables, and to harvest vegetables in conditions that have been superb," he said. Yields have been massive and the normal losses in a system where plants may die off, just had not happened. The result was a massive over supply and lower prices. "I can assure you, if you're a consumer, it's a consumer's market, in terms of the value. "I've not seen the value of fruit and vegetables, in particular the green leaf vegetables and root vegetables, I've never seen the value at the levels that we are seeing now, since pre-Covid - ...