Prices of melon and watermelon are down 60% and 10%, respectively, compared to last season

The Association of Fruit and Vegetable Producers’ Organizations of Almería (COEXPHAL) has described as “very bad” the current melon and watermelon campaign, given that farmers who have opted for these fruits typical of the Almeria spring season are enduring its sale at prices below the threshold of profitability. All this translates into a little viable campaign in which, in the case of melon, the average contribution to date is 60% below the average of last year. As for watermelon, their prices have fallen 10% compared to the previous season.

According to COEXPHAL, the price drop in melon is motivated by an agglomeration of production in recent weeks. To this situation of overproduction must be added the delay in the beginning of collection and the fact that Almería has been left with a very small market window, due to the increase of the product coming from overseas and the appearance of the Murcia melon.

With respect to watermelon, the causes of its fall in price have their origin in the fact that although the forecasts that were handled at the beginning of the campaign for this product pointed to a moderate increase of the harvest, again bad weather in the markets of destination has caused a delay in the collection of watermelon, so there has been much product in recent weeks.

Source: COEXPHAL

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