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Almería, Spain: High prices and reduced supply in the first weeks of the watermelon campaign

Fresh Watermelon
Fresh Bell Pepper
Fresh Tomato
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Spain
Published Apr 30, 2022

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(R.P.) - Almeria's watermelon production is gradually entering the markets. The offer is reduced at the end of April due to the incidents recorded by the weather during some weeks of March. According to the Observatory of Prices and Markets of the Junta de Andalucía, in the European markets the product coincides with shipments from overseas, while the Moroccan watermelon will go into production in the coming weeks.

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Average prices of ninety-four euro cents per kilo are registered, sixty-eight percent more than last season and it is estimated that the volume that has been harvested during these first fifteen days ranges between twenty or thirty percent of the total . Tomato prices continue to drop due to competition from the Netherlands, Belgium or Poland. The long life type is sold between seventy and fifty cents, the bouquet has an average cut of forty cents and the pear type registers a first cut of fifty cents and auctions of forty euro cents per kilo. Long aubergines have recovered value this week due to the withdrawal of a large part of the crops and prices range between eighty and forty euro cents. The striped aubergine is kept in high prices ranging from one euro with forty to ninety euro cents per kilo. The pepper export campaign is now in its final phase, with very small quantities and prices have dropped in terms of California types, where red does not exceed cuts of forty cents, ...
Source: Agronoticias
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