(ANSA) - BARI, AUGUST 11 - "Less than a third of consumer sales prices for fruit and vegetables end up with farmers who often cannot even cover production costs, with watermelons on offer on the sales counters of the large distribution up to a cent per kilogram ". This is what Coldiretti Puglia affirms in a note in which he speaks of "unfair commercial practices along the supply chain that are causing widespread crisis situations for summer fruit growers".
"The prices of watermelons and yellow melons have collapsed - explains Savino Muraglia, president of Coldiretti Puglia - with prices equal to a handful of cents, which aggravate the crisis in the fields in the provinces of Taranto, Lecce and Brindisi.
The same fate is affecting peaches and nectarines, in the production centers of Bari and Foggia. A supply chain commitment and a strategic vision are needed to save the Apulian orchard which in 10 years from 2010 to today has been reduced by 26% due to land consumption, tropicalization that has eaten 21,000 hectares of orchards and wrong planning and programming choices "." From in fact, on the one hand there are the effects of the economic crisis generated by the coronavirus - highlights Coldiretti - on the other the consequences of the crazy climate with the multiplication of extreme events such as frost, hail, storms, drought and scorching heat that compromise the production of fruit and vegetables causing the loss of a whole year's work in many farms "." A dramatic scenario in which - concludes Coldiretti - the insult of compensation below the production costs due to distortions and speculations in the distribution of value from the field to the table for most of the vegetables with hundredths paid to producers that become euros for consumers ". (A NSA).
Coldiretti Puglia 'unfair practices, watermelon prices drop'
2020-08-11T13:01:47.959Z
(HANDLE)(ANSA) - BARI, AUGUST 11 - "Less than a third of consumer sales prices for fruit and vegetables end up with farmers who often cannot even cover production costs, with watermelons on offer on the sales counters of the large distribution up to a cent per kilogram ". This is what Coldiretti Puglia affirms in a note in which he speaks of "unfair commercial practices along the supply chain that are cau...
