date:Apr 24, 2014
A warm winter and an increase in Europe's cultivated strawberry acreage have led strawberries from various origins to overlap for the first time, causing prices for Spanish strawberries to plunge way before the end of the campaign.
Average prices for Spanish strawberries have already dropped by around 40% compared to 2013 and this is leading many producers to throw fruit away and finish the campaign early. The president of the Association of Producers and Exporters of Strawberries from Huelva