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Spanish working ministry published this week the medium pension for gro-

wers nad with 518 € monthly its no wonder many continue in the field with

the hope of better times. In general the medium pension now in Spain is 874

€.

Beside from this note the weather

continues to create problems for

growers. 1.2 billion € is the estima-

ted loss only in Andalucia due to the

rain. And until the rain disappears it

will be difficult to value all the dama-

ges. Also in the farming industry

there has been losses and sadly

thousand of animals has drowned

with the heavy floodings.

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Asparagus:

The start is getting delayed because of

the cold weather. Expected start around

week 11-12.

Avocado:

Its raining again in malaga and quantities

are limited. But demand is slow so prices

maintain and oversea avocado is

Blenchcelleri:

Good quality with rising

tendency and many small now.

Broccoli:

Steady offer and steady prices

and if there is a tendency its up.

Capsicum:

Israel is suffering with Spain and the

month of March will be commplicated.

Trimix from spain out of a program is

virtually impossible as the quantities are

way to limited. Sizes are big, we are loo-

king towards GGG and the sizes for

flow should be G. The yelllow is almost

non existing even though today prices

went slightly down. Palermo/ Ramiro

Carrot:

Under water in cadiz and we will see the

consequences later. The carrots absord

the water and crack. The province of Ca-

diz is the most affected of the rain.

Cauliflower:

Little offer and since Italy apparantly has

big problems we expect the demand to

be strong in Spain.

China cabbage:

good quality from Valencia

Clementines:

Prices are going down on ortaniques and

the marktes seem very quiet. For nador-

cott the situation is that volumes are and

sales are going up

Courgettes:

Has been very very difficult with the rain

and now only difficult. Quality is exce-

llent.

Cucumber:

A strong campaign in Germany has va-

cuumed the Ducth market for cucumbers

next week and clients who had started

with Holland are turning to Spain where

prices are lower as well. However the

quantites are low and its not easy to find

cucumbers and new crop of Spanish cu-

cumbers is limited this year as more and

more are planting melons in stead of cu-

cumbers. We think prices will maintain

but it will certainly be easy to find large

quantities.

Egg plants:

Terrible week has just finished – prices on

auctions has been up to 2,5 € pr kg which

is more than the price for a manufactured

5 kg box 2 months ago. The rain and cold

weather has been to much for the plants.

We visited 3 green houses to check the

damages yesterday and in the first of 7500

square meter they were able to harvest on

Wednesday but only around 1000 kg

which is absolutely disatrous. The fruits

grows slow and are very small and further

like with salads when its cold they dont

gain weight but in stead it turn red and

violet and crack. Look for a black and

shiny eggplant if you want good quality

vegetables. The situation is getting better

and prices are lowering already but it will

be some weeks before plants are giving

more kilos.

Iceberg: Good quality despite the bad we-

ather but many small and in general few

iceberg salads.

Kumquat:

few few kilo

Lemon:

There is a new panorama now and the rea-

lity of the situaton has now finally rea-

Auberginer plants are naked

and the new fruits are the

size of nuts—it will take app

12 days before they reach a

normal size

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ched the growers of lemon. From being

very sceptical and claiming that there

would be few to none lemons in the second

half ot the season they now believe there

will be an excess. The reason is the enour-

mos amounts of continous rain. It had not

rained in 6 month and since 50% approxi-

mately of plantations dont have irrigation

these fields was estimated not to give anyt-

hing else than very small lemons in the si-

zes 5 or 6. Now with 1000 litres of water

there is suddenly lots of kilo of large sizes

and still no demand. There will be plenty of

lemons for March, April and May.

Little gem:

Not gaining weight in the cold weather.

Very light merchandise approx 100 g pr

piece right now

Melons:

The seasonplanning has been disturbed

both in the early and the medium planted

seeds. The reason is the weather and with

the first planted seeds the bees cant work

because of rain and hence fewer kg and

later harvest are expected. With the me-

dium plated seeds the problem has been the

lack of light so we will experience a slow

and large period with less melons than ex-

pected. Estimated beginning with quantities

around the end of April.

Oranges:

Very little demand but high prices. Gro-

wers has sold at high prices so now the ex-

porters try to at least cover the expenses so

even with little demand the prices are rela-

tive high.

Rasperry:

Even with rain the rasperries this week has

been rather good and actually with ok

quantities.

Romaine salad:

good quality rising demand and less offer.

Springonions: Good quality and little offer

Stone fruit:

The first white flesh nectarines will be avai-

lable from around the 15th of April and the

first yellow fresh around 25/30 th april. The

main variety being zincal 10. The flowering

in green house as well as in open filed is ad-

vanzing and the rain has so far not caused any

problems

Strawberry:

The situation in Huelva continues unstable.

After one week with heavy rain and 3 days

with sun we are back with rain and strong

winds again. And the prognosis for the co-

ming days is rain rain and rain. The quality is

unstable and the quantities are few.

Tomatoes:

The rain has been really tough on

the tomatoes and many plants has simply died

and thesmall sizes are limited 15% M rest

MM and every day less M sizes. Before easter

where demand normally is strong we will ex-

perience big problems with quantities and

evern in april and may where the plants nor-

mally is yelding very much few kgs are ex-

pected since the plants cant produce after a

strong winter. Further to the problems with

quantities now there is problems with quality

– i.e there is tomatoes but not for export furt-

her than perpignan so all in all difficult and

the situation will not improve anytime soon.

Xanadu:

Good quality but also a little light. Approx

150 g pr piece

Stone fruits evaluation in Huelva

the 25 of february

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