Spain: Falling price of watermelon

July 16, 2015

The Union of Llauradors reports a collapse in prices in the country and in some areas like the Camp de Túria L’Horta trades or half a ridiculous figure of 0.07 euros / kg.

Watermelon consumption is usually associated heat and despite the high temperatures both here and in the rest of Europe it is certain that the market does not strip. In this regard, the Union of Llauradors reports a collapse in prices in the country and in some areas like the Camp de Túria L’Horta trades or half a ridiculous figure of 0.07 euros / kg.

That in the best case for black or white has no seeds, in the case of black with nuggets quote and does not even in the field is left uncollected. The melon is not much better and the prices at source are located on average EUR 0.12 / kg.

Pepe Serra, producer of vegetables and district secretary of the Union of Camp de Turia, said that “at these prices and the alarming lack of profitability is difficult to have generational change in the country and it is not surprising that one third of cultivated land has eg disappeared in the Camp de Turia in the course of the last twenty years.

Furthermore, these crops do not even aid from the European Union, as is the case with other such as citrus. Vegetable producers must survive right now, as in the case of watermelon, with the paltry amount of 7 cents per kilo of your product.

Source: La Unió de Llauradors