A report issued by the Almeria Farmers Association (COAG) together with consumer associations UCE and CEACCU confirms that in 2009 the price difference between what farmers sold produce for and the price consumers had to pay had increased six-fold. Especially in produce grown in Almeria green houses such as courgettes, aubergines, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, melons and watermelons.

The price of Almeria produce has increased by an average of 620 per cent while in the rest of the country the increase is of 490 per cent.

The most expensive products where melon and watermelon with a 753 to 740 percent increase which COAG deems “scandalous”

Over the spring season last year some products saw a difference of a record-breaking 1,800 per cent increase from what farmers received for products and what consumers had to pay for them. This matter is being denounced by farmers and consumer associations whom ask for the situation to be regulated, once and for all.

Original Source – Euro Weekly

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