Italy: Offer of fruit and vegetables in line with the average of the season

Fruits and vegetables are available in many varieties, typical of the season, which can be purchased at prices fully in line with the average of other years. Only for some products do we begin to see the first effects of the cold of recent weeks on wholesale prices. The cold and the consequences on purchases Particularly suffering, notes the Research Department of the Rome Agri-food Center (CAR), are in this period products such as strawberries and asparagus, which are undergoing price increases, when compared to the same period last year. The main cause is precisely the anomalous frosts that have hit Italy in recent weeks and which, for products of this type, have affected the development and full maturation. Looking at other products, however, we can see that the cold was not only a cause of problems: the artichoke, for example, now at the end of its campaign, has seen an unexpected recovery in sales, determined precisely by the low temperatures, which they delayed the end of ...