Exports of Spanish cucumbers to United States and Canada

Vegetables

Spain

Published Oct 15, 2022

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Tholen - While in September there is often a large overlap between the Spanish, Dutch and Belgian range of fruit vegetables, this season the cards are played very differently. "We see that productions in the Netherlands are considerably lower. At the same time, the heat in Spain this summer had a great impact on productions, but also on the coarseness of the peppers, for example," says Henri Schockman of Freshclusive.

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"The Spanish suppliers can therefore look forward to good demand at the start of the season. Delivery to European distribution centers also started much earlier. They have their hands full filling in the regular programs for the supermarkets and there is still not too much left for day trading", Henri notes. "Spain will take extra care this season to see which customers can offer continuity. With certain products they are on the market for eleven months to year-round, and partly due to the situation in the Netherlands and Belgium, they have a choice of customers this year." Impression new building Freshclusive "September can normally be a difficult month for Spain to break into the market with cucumbers. This year the prices are once as high as last year. We already had a good month of export in September with Spanish cucumbers to the United States and Canada for a very different price level than we were used to. The current euro/dollar exchange rate makes exports to the dollar ...

Source: AGF