The average price of eggplant, bell pepper, and tomato drops in Netherlands

For more and more growers, it is the end of the season and time for the crop rotation. Meanwhile, more and more imported product is coming this way. A look at the VBT clock figures for week 43 shows that prices have fallen for most greenhouse vegetables. The average price for aubergines, for example, has more than halved in 1 week. One kilo yielded 36 euro cents. The competitive Spanish aubergines have also fallen in price. To such an extent that the market intervened in Andalusia, in the south of Spain. Class II aubergines may no longer be traded. Tomato prices also suffered a bit last week. Loose tomatoes yielded only 62 euro cents per kilo in week 43, compared to 1.08 euro a week earlier. The price of truss tomatoes also declined and comes to 1.15 rounded. In week 42, the price here was still 1.59 euros per kilo. Prices for yellow and red peppers have also fallen. With yellow, more than 1 euro was deducted from the price and a kilo is rounded off to 73 euro cents. A kilo of red ...