date:Jan 17, 2014
During the final week of the year, broccoli production volumes were still far from stable and Murcian exporters had many problems to cover Europe's levels of demand.
That demand was important for us because we had been operating about 50% below capacity for three or four weeks, explains David Franco Ruzafa, of the producer and trader Campo de Lorca, in Murcia, Spain.
Shortages between weeks 47 and 51 caused an excessive increase in demand during the Christmas period (weeks 51 and 1); however,