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Last night public tv channel TVE showed an interesting documentary with the title
“Lots of Tomatoes”. We followed the way of the tomato from grower to retailer and
had comments all way from the different persons in the process. The issue is the
huge increase in prices from what the grower receive to what the retailer sells for. A
kg of nice tomatoes are bought from the grower at approximately 0.40- 0.80 cents pr
kg and sold for around 3 euro at the stalls on the local markets. What we further
saw that when perfect tomatoes are handed in but not being sold on the worlds lar-
gest auction in CASI they will immediately in the afternoon destroy the product and
growers will receive a note that they will receive nothing since their goods was not
sold. After seeing the programme its clear that either the restructure the whole agri-
cultural sector in Almeria or many many small growers will have to find something
else to do in a near future.
A reminder again for everyone to come and visit the Total Produce/Capespan, Halu-
co and Fyffes stands in the coming trade fair in Berlin from the 3rd to the 5th februray.
We are located in Hall 5.2 stand 11.A
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Product Trends
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Avocado:
Despite better weather conditions there is
limited offer of Spanish hass. This is basically
because of strong appearence of chilean and
Israeli avocado on the europen markets. We
recall that avocado dont ripe on the tree so
they are in no hurry to harvest as long as the
market has very low prices.
Broccoli:
Super Quality in 250 and 500 g. Steady low
prices
Bunch carrots:
awaiting better weather to start up again.
The quality has been to poor for export for
some weeks now but should be ready soon.
Capsicum:
In the warehouses there are few kgs of capsi-
cum to be exported and in particular yellow
caps. The main reason is that the poor gro-
wers, always accusing importers and retailers
of high margens, are speculating in high pri-
ces. Then nobody is bringing in goods and
prices goes up and then they start and the
effect is as always that when they all start
harvesting the prices will be even lower than
it is now..However there has been reported
heavy raing in Israel and that the growing
areas of peppers are inaccessible so we ac-
tually do expec t that prices can go up next
week especially in flow and the small sizes.
Already the capia are reported to be more
expensive and the demand is increasing ri-
sing. Palermo which was in abundance has
the same problems now with lesser availabili-
ty. Further to this the growers are getting
ready for the water melon season so capsi-
cum plants are being replaced by watermelon
seeds.
Cauliflower:
Even fewer kgs available. Cauliflower is tradi-
tionally grown more in the interior parts whe-
re temperatures are lower than at the Medi-
terranean cost, so they have suffered more of
the unusual weather conditions than other
vegetables grown close to the sea.
Celery;
Good quality but as other crop less offer due to
the cold weather that has slowed down the
growing process.
China cabbage:
Nice crop from the Valencia region. Fluent sa-
les and good demand has increased prices.
Clementines:
Clemenules must be considered finished alt-
hough its posible to find some still. Now the
offer is clemenvillas and beginning with her-
nandinas. There are small volumes of Nadorcot
but not until the end of fenbrurary will there
be sufficient quantities.
Courgettes:
Prices are high due to low offer. The quality is
good again as weather has improved.
Cucumber:
Soft ends and “lizard skin” has been major pro-
blems due to the cold weather and heavy rain
the latest weeks in Almeria. The plant absorb
to much water from the high humity and the
fruits are damaged. The become sensitive and
in cases not apt for export. Further to this the
lack of sunlight produce pale products that are
difficult to commercialize. There are also fe-
wer kgs available so prices at auctions are high
although the demand remain low due to the
offers from other origens such as Greece and
now limited crop from Holland.
Egg plants:
There are few quantities right now as a conse-
quence of cold weather. This vegetable is very
sensible to the weather so there has been se-
vere quality problems lately The high humidity
makes the plants absorb too much liquids and
the egg plant are suffering interiorly and arri-
ves with damages. Difficult to avoid and the
cold weather adds chilling injuries to the pro-
cess. Prices was very high at the beginning of
the week but has lowered some towards the
end. However there will be limited quantities
until approximately medium march..
Ramiro ready to be picked
in on of the many green
houses that choose to plant
this year, This grower will
substitute next year with
egg plannts next year. We
also see from the same
grower the effect of the
high humidity on the pictu-
re
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Iceberg:
After many weeks with cold weather and now
hot there will be a lack in production the next
weeks.
Kohlrabi:
Nice new crop of Kohlrabi available
Lemon:
Now there is a strong appearance of Egypt le-
mons on the market together with new crop of
Lamas so it remain impossible to obtain the pri-
ces the Spanish growers are looking for. They
actually seem to think that demand has little to
do with the prices but since they have lesser
fruits than normal they expect more. So huge
pack houses are working only half weeks and
has still no demand whatsoever.
Oranges:
The good weather now permits the growers to
pick fruits that has not been possible almost
since 18 of december. So there are now new
navels and navelinas coming in.
Peas:
New crop from Dalias. Prices are high and availa-
bility low. Should be posible to do fek kgs next
week
Pointed Cabbage:
Very nice products with possibillity of flow.
Potatoes:
New crop of small Nicola and Charlotte from
Seville.
Rasperry:
Very limited offer of rasperry due to the rain.
Romaine salad:
Increasing sales with salads of good quality, howe-
ver some have been damaged with the cold weat-
her so a less offer should be expected.
Strawberry:
Better weather is improving the last 3 days but the
quality is still poor. Lots of plants have been dama-
ged so we estimate it will still take 2 weeks before
quantities will be normal. Lots of rotten fruits be-
cause of boytritis so quality is most apt for the do-
mestic market. The main variety right now are spel-
dor and festival and in 15 days we will have Cadon-
ga (sabrosa). The variety Fortuna to which we had
great expectations has proved to be a complete
disaster.
Tomatoes:
The cold weather has set down production slightly.
The quality is improving after the problems caused
by the recent rain which caused problems with the
cherry tomato, (cracks) and lack of colour on all
other varieties. The plants of august and Septem-
ber are very tired now and yield few kgs. However
the good weather with sun should mean better
coulors and sweeter taste for the tomatoe3s
now.
Xanadu/ little gem:
Superior quality now and good prices.
Kumquats:
Quantities are rising as the weather improves.
New Kohlrabi and picture with boy-
triotis affected strawberrry plants.
Still its posible to pack some nice
berries as seen on the last picture
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