Spain: Proexport predicts an increase in the prices of fruit and vegetables

The general director of Proexport, Fernando Gómez, has affirmed that the commercial negotiations with customers and suppliers during the Fruit Attraction fair, from October 5 to 7 in Madrid, "must take into account the significant increase in costs of supplies and materials. premiums that the agricultural sector and the entire economy are bearing. "This announcement of price increases is produced when the commercial teams that travel to the Madrid fair will negotiate contracts and sales of fruit and vegetables for the coming months with those responsible for purchases of supermarket chains, importers, wholesalers and, in general, the group of agents in the sector, as Gómez pointed out in a statement this Tuesday, of factors exogenous to the sector that drastically increase the price of packaging, transport, electricity, water, materials, fertilizers, pesticides and labor. "The product cost reference that we had the previous campaign has become old and outdated and we must update ...