Sale of second grade Dutch cucumbers prohibited

The Andalusian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional, HORTYFRUTA, continues with its exhaustive analysis of the market situation of the topping products, and as it made public last week, the sector is going through a particularly worrying situation, more acute in the case of the long Dutch-type cucumber. Today, the situation for this vegetable remains critical and for this reason the HORTYFRUTA Crisis Committee, following the provisions of the Extension of the Standard on quality published in the Official Gazette of the Andalusian Government on 07/28/2022, has decided to activate the Extension of the Quality Standard for long Dutch-type cucumbers grown under greenhouse conditions in conventional agriculture. It is the first time, since this tool has been in force, that the Interprofessional has activated the Extension of the Standard for this vegetable. In this way, from 00:00 hours on Wednesday, November 27, the second categories of long Dutch-type cucumbers cannot be marketed. ...