Italy: Small fruit wholesale, raspberry hole

A hole foretold that of raspberries. A lack of product that is now being felt strongly, in Great Britain, where there is a strong consumption of berries, they have also rationalized purchases: a maximum of three baskets per person. But blueberries are also starting to run short given the final phase of the South American campaign and on the currant front we are running out of stock for the Italian refrigerated product and prices will soon rise with products imported from Holland and Chile. Raspberries: 90% from Morocco, high prices Umberto Maffioletti of the Arrigoni Chiara company from the Milan market offers myfruit.it the map of current dynamics: “There is a lack of raspberries, 90% of the product comes from Morocco, there is little Italy and Spain, and it is expensive. It also discounts problems at customs, the goods should arrive within 4 days and maybe delayed by 1/2. The prices are very high compared to even the average quality standard”. Have sales dropped? “We recorded a ...