Large melon stocks have been eliminated due to the heatwave in the Netherlands, but the price has not gone through the roof yet

Tholen - The heat wave of the past few weeks caused melon sales, but especially watermelon sales that went through the roof, but with the current temperatures, the market is back to square one. "The only thing that has actually happened is that the large stocks from Morocco and Almeria have been eliminated and that they did not have to be dumped, but that does not mean that prices have gone through the roof," says Leon van den Hombergh of Frankort&King. "The past few weeks have proved once again how weather-dependent, especially the sale of watermelons. At a temperature above 30 degrees, sales increase by ten times. But now it is also falling just as fast," the importer notes. "The warm weather is now only concentrated around the eastern and southeastern tip of Europe, and there is also a sufficient supply of Italian and soon Turkish and Greek watermelons." "We had to deal with a gap between Almeria and Murcia, which meant that there was a little less supply of Galia and ...