The red fruit campaign in Spain starts with low supply and high prices

In Huelva, the 2023/24 campaign has begun with serious difficulties: successive heat waves in summer that delayed the growth of raspberry plants, a late end of replanting for strawberries and decreases in the areas of both raspberry and strawberry caused by the cut in the irrigation provision that has come into force at the beginning of 2024. Consequently, the supply of fruit has been scarce and prices have registered values much higher than the average of the three previous campaigns. Strawberry The campaign has started late and there is very little supply of strawberries, which have high prices. The low supply of strawberries in international markets has meant that there are still no published strawberry prices in German wholesale markets, although there is a presence there of strawberries from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Netherlands. Import prices have not yet begun to be published in Perpignan, but there are prices for ...