date:Dec 14, 2016
The European Union (EU) has purchased a record volume of aubergines in the 2015/2016 marketing year (1 September 2015 to 31 August 2016), according to data from the Euroestacom (ICEX-Eurostat) statistical service.
The average price paid by European consumers for imported aubergines during the campaign stood at 1.028 per kilo, down 1.38% compared to the previous season and 10.76% lower than in the 2013/2014 campaign. Of the EU's five largest suppliers of this vegetable, the country that sold it