Spain: Yellow alert for long Dutch cucumber and green zucchini

Published 2024년 11월 21일

Tridge summary

The Andalusian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional (HORTYFRUTA) has issued a 'yellow alert' due to a significant decline in the harvest of various horticultural products such as cucumbers, courgettes, peppers, and tomatoes over the past two weeks. The situation is particularly critical with long Dutch-type cucumbers, which have seen a surge in production in the past 15 days, leading to an anticipated increase in sales of over 10% for the current week. This surge is exacerbated by changing weather conditions and the presence of produce from northern Europe in the destination markets. If the situation persists, HORTYFRUTA may extend regulations to limit the market to only extra and first categories, potentially impacting all operators in the industry. The alert also highlights the need to monitor the quality of other vegetables as the situation threatens to extend to other produce following storm damage earlier in the campaign despite initial promising sales figures.

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Original content

The Andalusian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional, HORTYFRUTA, expresses its concern about the unstable situation in most of the horticultural products in its coverage, such as cucumber, courgette, pepper or tomato, after the gradual deterioration suffered in the harvest during the last two weeks. After a rigorous analysis of the markets, it has been confirmed that, today, there is a situation of 'yellow alert', as stated in its Crisis Manual for products such as long Dutch-type cucumber and green courgette. For the Interprofessional, the situation of the long Dutch-type cucumber is especially worrying since production has accelerated in the last 15 days. In fact, for the current week (week 47) significant increases of more than 10% are expected compared to what is normal at this time. Without a doubt, changing weather conditions, and high temperatures for this month of November, do not help to regulate sales. In fact, in the destination markets there is still a large quantity ...

Source: Agrodigital