Spain: The price of strawberries is multiplied by six from origin to consumer
Fresh Strawberry
Spain
Published Jan 13, 2022
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Red fruits return for one more year to the shelves of large and small surfaces, but for another year, the price along the food chain has nothing to do from the field to the table. According to the Union of Small Farmers of Andalusia in Huelva (UPA), the price of strawberries increases six times from origin to consumer.
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In this way, the organization has referred to cases such as the one detected in a market in Barcelona in which the prices of a kilo of strawberry these days are around 15 euros per kilo, having been last week at 20 euros. They have stressed that of those 15 or 20 euros that the consumer pays for a kilo of strawberry, "the farmer barely charges 3 euros" and they recalled that "since 2016, when we have been fighting for fair prices, no one has been able to show us that this it is not speculation ”. "It is simply an abuse and an injustice wherever you look," they have pointed out, noting that in strawberries the farmer pays for everything: operating costs, labor, packaging and transport. Chain Law UPA Huelva has indicated that "we are already late to forcefully apply the Food Chain Law", recently ...
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