The prices of some vegetables this season in Chile begin to fall

Spring has already begun, the prices of some vegetables this season begin to fall, of the 31 vegetables that are monitored at the wholesale market level, 24 lowered their price in October compared to September, the main drops were in Broad bean whose average real price per month decreases 39% at the wholesale level and 21% at the fair level, given the time of year when the highest production of this vegetable occurs in the Metropolitan and O'Higgins regions, the same happens with asparagus which increases the supply from the Maule Region and lowers wholesale prices by 36%. Although the tomato is not among the main drops, its decrease in the real average price is important, due to its high consumption. In the wholesale market, its average value reached $ 895 per kilo, which is why it decreases 7.7% compared to the month of September of this year and also 19% compared to the real average price of October 2020, where the average wholesale prices They exceeded 1,000 per kilo, but ...