The 2021/22 season has started in the huge vegetable growing areas of Almería, Spain

Published 2021년 9월 25일

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The 2021/22 vegetable season has commenced in Almería, Spain's largest vegetable-growing region, with warm weather leading to an early supply of zucchini and high prices. The prices for other vegetables such as tomatoes and peppers have not been announced yet. Almería is known for its subtropical climate, high sunshine hours, and limited rainfall, making it ideal for greenhouse crop production despite the challenging soil conditions. The region is a major contributor to Europe's fruit and vegetable market, with crops including bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, zucchini, and melons.
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The 2021/22 vegetable season in Spain’s largest growing area has begun with new prices announced by distribution centers. The warm weather around Almería has accelerated the development of zucchini, so there is already a significant supply of it at a very high price of between 0.6 and 0.3 EUR / kg, this year's tomatoes and peppers are still to be seen. Snake cucumbers started at a relatively low price (around € 0.3 / kg) and the highest demand is usually for eggplant at the start of the season. FruitVeB wrote that for the tomato varieties already available, the sphere started trading at 1 euro / kg and pera between 0.5-0.75. For peppers, Italiano green peppers ranged from 0.4 to 0.88 euros / kg, green lamuyo from 1.4 and red from 0.4 to 0.6 euros / kg. There are no significant quantities of bell peppers on the market yet, larger quantities will be removed from the foils later, and will still be exported the most. For smaller batches of bell peppers, the average price of green was ...
Source: Magro

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