Tridge summary
The UK is currently facing a severe shortage of tomato supplies due to production and export issues in Spain and Morocco. Adverse weather conditions such as cold temperatures, heavy rains, and floods have caused a significant decline in tomato production in both countries. The situation has led to empty tomato spaces in UK supermarkets and signs explaining the shortage. The supply disruption has also resulted in a threefold increase in prices.
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Original content
The UK market is experiencing a serious shortage of tomato supplies also following the difficulties of Spain and Morocco on the production and export front. In the UK, images have been released of supermarkets with completely empty tomato spaces. Other images even show signs in supermarkets explaining the reason for the shortage, due to a multitude of factors that have created a "perfect storm". Bad weather in Spain and Morocco, floods, combined with low temperatures have contributed to the decline tomato supplies in the UK, according to media reports. In the North African country, growers and suppliers have faced a "perfect storm" of cold temperatures, heavy rains, floods and canceled ferries in recent weeks, all of which have seriously affected the ...
Source: Italiafruit
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