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aLMERia: 14 pER CENt LEss
The last horticultural
campaign of Almería finished
with negative results
of the value, with a
fall of 14% respecting to
the previous campaign,
although with an increase
of 4% of the commercialization.
Throughout the period
2010/2011 2.2 million
tons of fruits and vegetables
with a value in origin
of 1,111 million Euros
were commercialized.
The value of all the products
decreased except the
pepper that increased
9%, continuing the creasing
tendency of the last
campaign.
The value of the courgette
was the worst of the vegetables
decreasing 40%,
whereas the cucumber
also decreased 8% but
its production increased
8%.
The prices of the aubergine
decreased 14% with
a production similar to
the last campaign. The
production of the tomato
also increased 6% and
the value decreased 17
per cent.
The spring campaign was
not better and the value
of the melon decreased
16 per cent but also the
production decreased 10
per cent.
The watermelon had better
behavior increasing
its value 59 per cent, although
the production
increased 11 per cent. The
bean also had good behavior.
ISRAEL wiLL REaCh
2,500 hECtaREs OF pEppER
Israel will have during
the present campaign
2,500 hectares of pepper,
which means an increase
of 200 hectares respecting
to the last campaign.
This increase is caused
mainly by the change of
the crops of tomato into
pepper crops and, also
the new plantations in
the Valley of Arava.
The producers of Israel
think that the possibilities
of the pepper are
better than the tomato
because of the hard competition
between Spain
and Morocco to export
to the European market.
The production of Israel
during the last campaign
was 175,000 tons, standing
out the red sweet pepper,
of which 50,000 tons
were exported to the EU.
The tendency for the
present campaign is that
the shipments of pepper
from Israel to Europe are
increased through the
German way.
During the campaign
2008-2009 the surface
increased 15 per cent but
the possibilities of new
growth are determined
by the lack of surface and
water for the development
of the crop of pepper,
reason why some analysts
consider that Israel
is near its limits of surface
of this product.
Tendencies
MURCia:
BaD
SITUATION
FOR THE
SwEET
PEPPER
The sweet pepper of spring
is not working well in Spain.
The production of Murcia
and Alicante has been decreasing
for two years. The
causes have been the low
prices and the little margin
of maneuver.
Murcia and Alicante are looking
for a place between the
end of the campaign of Almería
(Spain) and the beginning
of Westland (Holland),
but in the both last years
the campaign of Almería
has been longer thanks to
the biological control and
Holland has started its
campaign of sweet pepper
earlier thanks to the technological
development.
The surface of pepper
during the last campaign
reached 1,700 hectares, of
which 1,000 hectares were
of elongated pepper and the
rest were of sweet pepper.
The prices of the campaign
2011 were below 60 cents of
Euro for sweet pepper and 15
per cent more for the elongated
pepper, which “is causing
that some producers of pepper
came back to the Spanish
market”, Angel García of
Soltir, affirms.
Although it is still soon to
anticipate the production
of 2012, some seeds companies
interested in the sweet
pepper sector of spring in
Murcia-Alicante anticipate
a decrease 10-15 per cent of
the surface, which means a
total surface of around 600
hectares into the hands of
the Surinver, Gregal, San
Cayetano and Hortamira
companies.
F&H International 1 • November 2011
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