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Faced with the current price crisis suffered by producers of fruit and vegetables from Almeria, especially for those who have planted cucumber or eggplant. There is a feeling of a moral obligation to do something to reverse this situation from agricultural organizations to marketing firms. Companies behind most of the production of these two vegetables have agreed on the need to alleviate the market to rebound in prices, as has been proposed from agricultural organizations on behalf of farmers of Almeria. For this reason, they have agreed to to the removal of 30% of the production of cucumber and eggplant of Almeria from Thursday 22 October. The measure must be made in the moment of the entry of the product, before weighing and apply on the number of packages, containers must be enabled for the removal. That is, if a farmer has 10 boxes of product, 3 is removed. From farmers' organizations and trade associations they are asking that all companies respect the terms of the compromise. On Monday 26 it will be evaluated between the companies the effectiveness of the meassure applied.
Product Trends
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Weather
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Avocado:
Cauliflower:
Rain has disturbed the harvest and few kg are available of green skin.
Starts week 44, and a go od quality is expected Celery: Not yet available in quality for export, but new crop is soon expected Clemenules/Arrufatina/Pons: From now we expect normal availability of Clemenules as well as Arrufatinas and Clemenpons will increase in quantity. The quality is splendid and the color perfect.
Nice green skin organic avocado
Oorganic collection
Broccoli: Has begun most places, also organic, with both 10x500 and 24.250 g. Capsicum: It seems that the demand i a little higher these days which has led to immediate increase in the low prices. Its The kgs coming in are fewer right now di to the weather conditions.
Perfect oronules from Rada in an interesting packaging.Interlocking wooden crates with no glue og metal clamps and they can be stabled direct on top of eachother palets or in the shops.
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Corn:
Kaki:
Fresh corn of excellent quality until mid december
Quality problems in Valencia due to the hawai fungus which has proven very difficult to control. The ripening of affected kaki is spedde up 200 times and apparant perfect fruit will ripe in only few days arrivin in poor condition. In Seville and Huelva howver they hva not detected the fungus yet so their fruits are free of Illnes and also now ready for export. Prices are higher than Valencia but quality is guaranteed. The sizes in Huleva is rather big of the persimon variety so fewer small sizes for punnets available, but when the Sharon variety becomes available in few weeks there will be sufficient offer from Seville.
Cucumber: fewer kg coming in and agreements on destruction should improve the prices that are far below cost of production. We ecpext this to continue until end of October.
Chilli: New crop of Fireflame available from this week. Very strong pepper with app 45.000 Scoville units. Nice uniform and clean pepper with the right colour.
Sharon 2 weeks from collection in Huelva
Egg plants: Very cheap but with a sign of increase in prices due to the weather right now in Almeria. However predictions are that weather will improve so the higher prices might just be for a day or 2. Figs: Limited offer closed to sold out of 12x250 dried figs. Iceberg: Good quality not all has started yet.
Grow Source Persimon from Huelva ready for export
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Lemon:
Marisol:
More exporters are starting up this week, increasing the offer which has lead to a fast decline in prices. However the sizes are still limited and rain and moist is complicating the harvest.
Almost all Marisol from the area south of Valencia has finished. In Castellon north of Valencia the production is much better and the area produces also much better colors than any other place. There might be for another 10 days of Marisol in Castellรณn. Oranges;
Primofiori of Frusemur
Organic lemons from Malaga
navelias of Murcia and Valencia with good quality and normal levels of juice. Castellon/ Tarragona are following with their crop but Sevilla is 2 weeks delayed du to the very hot weather they experienced the latest weeks with up to 30 degrees. Furter now the weather is very humid when not raining so they can only start to pick the fruist when moist are gone and that is around 11 in the morning. So because of this few kgs are coming in and available quantities are limited.
Super quality from La Actual
Little Gem: New crop of vrey good quality available
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Plums:
Tomatoes:
We continue with angeleno of good quality at least for another 2-3 weeks.
Very cheap cherry tomatoes and with good quality. Plum cherry in good quality 12x250 g in triangular flow. 10x300 trimix has started with ok quantities, the pear tomato is also available and round M tomatoes loose or on the wine available
Romaine salad: Will start week 44 with the first departures Satsuma okitsu: This variety has basically ended. Only small volumes available avaiting the owari variety.
Aguilas tomatoes
Zucchini:
Satsuma Owari:
From Las Norias where we find our zucchini they spotted snow on the sierra nevada mountains yesterday…little later prices began to increase and its expected they will continue to do so during the week
Few available Owaris momentarily and with high prices this variety seems to diminish in available kg every year since growers due to low prices has choosen to find more attractive and beneficial varieties. Its more than possible that what remains of the season Owari wil continue expensive and with few available kilo.
Grow Source Import Snow on Sierra Nevada
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