Global cucumber production suffers from increased energy prices

Global cucumber production, which in many countries relies heavily on cultivation with added heat and light, has suffered from the increase in energy prices around the world. Some production countries, including the Netherlands and France, have reduced their use of these methods in order to ensure the production is still profitable. Despite these fears, cucumbers remain a popular product, particularly through the summer. In Italy, 41.1% of households bought the vegetable over the last year. The Netherlands & Belgium: Energy prices cause uncertainty for cucumber growersAfter a dark January month and a stormy weekend, cucumber growers in the Netherlands and Belgium are gearing up for a few sunny days in the last weekend of February, which will do the crop good. The area isn’t expected to grow much this season. Various cooperatives even reported a slight decrease in acreage. However, there are growers who have exchanged their tomato crop for a (high wire) cucumber crop. Recently, ...