Bad weather causes vegetable prices to soar in Italy

Fruits

Vegetables

Italy

Published Jun 1, 2023

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The prices of vegetables jumped by 13.9% conditioned by the trend of the crazy weather with the multiplication of extreme events, including drought and bad weather, which hit the crops in the field hard, reducing their availability. This is what emerges from the analysis by Coldiretti on the inflation trend in May compared to the same month last year (Istat data) which shows an 11.6% increase in the prices of food products, higher than the average figure for the inflation which fell to 7.6%.

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Therefore, the difficulties for families continue which in the course of 2022 led Italians to cut purchases of fruit and vegetables which collapsed by 9% in quantity compared to the previous year, to the lowest since the beginning of the century, according to the analysis by Coldiretti based on Cso Italy data. The Italians - underlines Coldiretti - have reduced the quantities of pears by 17%, oranges and table grapes by 11%, peaches, nectarines and kiwis by 8% and apples by 5%, while among the vegetables purchases of asparagus fell by 24% and those of radicchio by 20%. The result is that with 5.5 billion kilos in 2022, the consumption of fruit and vegetables by Italians - explains Coldiretti - was half a billion kilos less than that of the previous year with worrying effects on citizens' health. The difficulties extend from consumer tables to the countryside where – underlines Coldiretti – over 1/3 of farms (34%) are forced to work in a condition of negative income while 13% are ...

Source: Italiafruit