The delegations of France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain agree to invite Greece to join the Strawberry Contact Group

The Spanish-French-Italian-Portuguese Strawberry Contact Group recently met in Huelva. The group analyzed the impact of the increase in production costs, climatic adversities, and differences in phytosanitary regulations between Community producers and third countries, which they stated: "also contribute to making strawberry promotions that bring down prices and despise the quality of our product." Freshuelva carried out an analysis of the campaign in Spain, highlighting that the last campaign resulted in an 8.90% decrease in exports, mainly due to the climatic adversities suffered at the beginning and end of the campaign. Regarding the current season, Freshuelva highlighted that the planted area had remained stable and had increased by 2%. They also said there was much uncertainty among producers, which had been forced to replant 20% of the plants due to climatic adversities. The French sector spoke about the production difficulties they faced in the last season, which ended with ...