Almería, Spain: Watermelon remains stable with the highest prices of the last decade

Fresh Tomato

Fresh Cucumber

Fresh Melon (Muskmelon)

Fresh Watermelon

Spain

Published Jun 4, 2022

Tridge summary

(R. P.) - The average price of watermelons remains very stable in the markets of origin in Almeria, where prices have barely dropped, going from eighty-four cents to eighty-two cents. The mini watermelon has an average cut of seventy-five cents, the black type is sold for around one euro and the striped one is priced at an average of eighty euro cents per kilo.

Original content

These are the highest prices recorded for this product in the last decade, due to the drop in supply during this agricultural campaign. As for melon prices, prices have dropped slightly, but they are still very profitable, although we must take into account the large quantities of product that are being destroyed because they have not reached optimal conditions for consumption due to inclement weather meteorological The yellow melon is sold for less than eighty-five cents, the cantaloup reaches amounts of one euro and thirty cents, the Galia drops to prices between ninety and eighty cents and the category melon has an average value of ninety euro cents per kilo . As for the rest of the product, the short black cucumber has gone up to first cuts for one euro and ninety cents and has auctions of one euro and thirty cents, the French type is sold between one euro and ninety-five cents, and the long cucumber It trades below forty euro cents per kilo. In the last week, both fine and ...

Source: Agronoticias