Almería, Spain: Melon and watermelon suffer the first price crisis of the campaign
Fresh Melon (Muskmelon)
Fresh Zucchini
Published May 12, 2023
Tridge summary
(R.P.) Only a few weeks after the start of the melon and watermelon campaign there has been a drastic drop in prices, it is the first price crisis suffered by these products. They are the fruits of the earliest crops that have seen their prices cut in half in a few weeks. The mini watermelon sells for around forty cents, the black type has an average cut of fifty cents and the striped one is quoted for an average of forty euro cents per kilo.
Original content
The yellow melon has an average cut of forty cents, the cantaloup type is around sixty cents, the Galia melon has an average of forty-five cents, in the same way as the piel de sapo type. In tomato, the new plantations are in full swing. harvesting, until the end of the productive cycle at the end of May or beginning of June. Prices remain high in general, the bouquet type is the only one that drops sharply to an average cut of thirty-four cents. The pear tomato ranges between eighty-five and fifty euro cents, while the long-lived type starts sales at eighty cents and has auctions for sixty-five euro cents per kilo. The long aubergine has risen to first prices of eighty-five cents with last cuts of sixty euro cents. The striped aubergine ranges between two euros and twenty and one euro and seventy cents per kilo. The zucchini has recovered profitability during the last week, both the fine and the fat ones are sold between fifty and thirty euro cents per kilo. The cucumber ...
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