date:Sep 12, 2019
he trip has to be made by boat, which also entails numerous expenses.
The presence of a higher number of competitors has been pushing sales prices and the profit margins down. A whitefly pest caused a new decline in 2008, and a dispute with the State forced producers to return 14 million Euro in transport aid they had received in 2002. The Tuta absoluta pest of 2015, or the recent rise of the minimum wage, which has brought production costs up by 23%, have put the sector under added pressure, a