date:Jan 30, 2013
Data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on the December 2012 Consumer Price Index (CPI) shows a price fall of 5.7% for vegetables during the latest quarter.
The price fall coincides with substantial harvests of fruit and vegetables that followed strong rainfalls during the prime growing season around most of Australia. The high Australian dollar also resulted in loss of some export markets resulting in downward price pressures on local growers through over-supply in the