Spain: The significant rise in tomato prices due to the skyrocketing demand in Almería

(R.P.) During this last week there has been a significant rise in tomato prices compared to the previous ten days. The plain tomato has an average of one euro, the long-life type sells between one euro and thirty cents and ninety cents and the pear type has a first price of one euro and forty-five and last prices of one euro and twenty cents. of euro per kilo. High temperatures reduced fruit set and the earliest tomatoes that are being harvested at this time are having great profitability. Medium cycle plantations, the majority in the province, will enter into production in the coming weeks. As for the aubergine, the striped type sells for between seventy-five cents and fifty cents of a euro, and the long type does not exceed cuts of fifty cents and ends sales at around twenty-five cents of a euro per kilo. The pepper has also registered upward changes in practically all its types. The green Italian is priced between one euro and forty-five and ninety cents, while the green lamuyo ...