The climatic factors cause that the production of cranberry falls an 17% and the one of raspberry more than one 13%
The latest report on the development of the red fruit campaign 2017/2018 in Huelva, which has been made public by the Observatory of Prices and Markets of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Junta de Andalucía, and to which agrodiariohuelva.es has had access, puts It is clear that in week 20, which runs from May 14 to 20, “the supply of blueberries has contracted by more than 17% due to weather factors".
This is the reason, underlines the report, why the average price received by the farmer remains with respect to the previous week, remaining at 2,69 euros / kilo, 5,8% above the price obtained in the same week of the previous campaign.
So far this season until week 20, the average price of blueberries stands at 4,56 euros / kilo, continuing above (almost 21%) the average price reached in the same period in 2017. In the two campaigns Previously, they recall from the Observatory, when week 20 arrived, about 70% of the total production of the campaign had been marketed on average.
Raspberry
As for the commercialized production of raspberries, it has also been affected downwards and this week is 13,5% lower than that of the previous week, according to the data collected by the Observatory.
Regarding the average price received by the farmer, it has barely varied this week, with a decrease of around 1,63% and remaining at 5,45 euros / kilo. So far this season until this week, the average price obtained for raspberries is 6,01 euros / kilos, compared to the 5,40 euros / kilos that were obtained on average in the previous campaign until the same week.
In the two previous campaigns, when the 20 week arrived, the 88,5% of the total production of the campaign had been sold on average.
Strawberry
The marketed production of strawberries, which is already at the bottom of the campaign, has decreased by 40% compared to the previous week, according to the data collected in the report. In the five previous seasons, when week twenty arrived, the volume of strawberry marketed was 97% of the total for the season.
The average price received by the farmer for the strawberry packaged in standard format has grown by 12% to 0,77 euros / kilo.
According to data from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Germany, which is the reference for the Observatory, the average price of Spanish strawberries in the German wholesale markets in week 20 of 2018 stood at 1,63 euros / kilo, a 22,7% below the price of the previous week and 26,2% below the price of the same week of the 2016/17 campaign.
Strawberry prices in German wholesale markets from different European origins continue to decline this week, the monitoring report finally points out.
Source: Agrodiario Huelva
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