Netherlands: Strawberry demand could not always keep up with growing supply

Published 2023년 6월 1일

Tridge summary

The article provides an overview of the agricultural market, focusing on the availability and prices of various produce including strawberries, apples, pears, table grapes, peaches and nectarines, apricots, lemons, bananas, cauliflower, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet peppers, and asparagus. It highlights that domestic strawberries and apples are experiencing increased supply, leading to difficulties in meeting demand and causing price fluctuations. In contrast, southern hemisphere pears, grapes, peaches, and nectarines are in high demand due to their quality. Spaniard-dominated markets for most produce, with the exception of bananas where supply and demand are balanced. Additionally, increased supply has led to decreasing prices for cauliflower, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, and sweet peppers. Domestic asparagus has seen a significant increase in availability, leading to weak demand and decreasing prices.

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Domestic strawberries clearly dominated the markets. Dutch goods came second. Lots from Greece, Poland, Belgium, Italy, and Spain arrived only sporadically and were all of a merely supplementary nature. According to the BLE, deliveries from the domestic market, now from the open ground as well, increased. Demand could not always keep pace with this. Traders increased their prices on various occasions at the start of the week, but they were then often forced to successively lower their previous prices if they wanted to avoid larger surpluses. However, even with the discounts granted, stocks could not always be avoided. In Hamburg, goods came in from the west and south of Germany, some of which had already arrived on the market with conditional problems as a result of poor regional weather conditions during growth. These impaired the trade of regular goods. Cologne reported slight price increases at the beginning of the week, but these could not be maintained due to extended ...

Source: Hortidaily