Italy: Peach prices higher on average of 20-30%, apricots down in the market

In the wholesale markets the glasses are not raised for sales, but the great heat makes you consume summer fruit. In this context, due both to the lack of Spanish product and to the shortage of some sizes of Italian product, the price of peaches is higher on average by 20 to 30%. A good season for those with peaches and nectarines. On the other hand, the apricots are bad, the campaign is down. They keep melons and watermelons, strawberries from Trentino for 8 euros and cherries for 4 euros per kg, tomatoes are required but are not paid very much and vegetables in general are in decline. Spain effect on peaches: they are sold starting from € 1.50 From the Milan market Bruno Barcella, entrepreneur and representative of Fedagro Milan, offers myfruit.it a reading of the market dynamics that are affected in this period, but it is a phenomenon that usually it is repeated in these months, of the emptying of the city for the summer holidays. “At a percentage level it will weigh 15/20% but ...