Spain: The price of the Andalusian cucumber plummets 60% due to the mismatch between supply and demand

Published 2023년 6월 7일

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The Interprofessional Organization of Fruit and Vegetables of Andalusia, Hortyfruta, has highlighted the challenges faced by the greenhouse fruit and vegetable sector due to supply-demand imbalances, largely influenced by unusual weather conditions in May. The situation is particularly impacting the cucumber market, with prices significantly lower than the usual. Almería, a key market, has seen a 5% decrease in cucumber sales, leaving a small margin for the rest of the campaign. Similar issues are affecting melons and to a lesser extent, watermelons. Hortyfruta is working on improvements to the Extension of Norm to better address such critical situations.

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The member associations of the Interprofessional Organization of Fruit and Vegetables of Andalusia, Hortyfruta, have wanted to focus on the complex end of the campaign that is taking place in the greenhouse fruit and vegetable sector in Andalusia. Currently, an anomalous situation is being experienced, caused to a certain extent by the serious imbalances that are taking place between supply and demand. One of the possible causes of this complicated scenario may be the weather, with a very atypical month of May with excessively changing weather circumstances, which have caused production crowds and ups and downs in supply and demand. One of the products that are being greatly affected is cucumber. Under normal circumstances, Spanish and French cucumbers in week 22 (from May 29 to June 4) should be trading at around 0.30 cents per kilo; and yet it is far below, reaching €0.12 for the Spanish cucumber and €0.16 for the French one, not compensating, at this time, the costs incurred. ...

Source: Agrodiario Huelva