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Friday the 20th

of November the agricultural sector will be in a large scale strike and

the 21st

there will be a massive demonstration in Madrid. The 3 largest unions has

come to an agreement and wil strike together with 40.000 irrigators. The problems

of the irrigators is that they have invested new more efficient machinery but with a

90% increase in the energy prices over a year they claim its impossible to continue

distribute water to the growers. We expect the period to be paralyzed with few to

none activity in the sector.

In valencia they are worried abouth plagues coming in from oversea citrus products.

This year the import of south african citrus has been only half of last year due to

restrictions but the plaques has risen to record high 68% in all the containers con-

trolled. Bear in mind Spain is the most sensible country to citrus plagues so probably

citrus coming in different ports of Europos will not be quarantained. If the plagues

will extend to the valencian fields we risk to see somthing similar of what has hap-

pened to the kaki with up to 80% of the crop lost. The unions in Valencia wants to

totally ban import of South African citrus.

Weather

Product Trends

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Avocado:

Due to strong wind this week there

has been a lot of Hass falling from the

trees and some or many of these has

been marketed. They begin to pack of

better and safe quality this week.

Right now they are only on 25% of

normal capacity and until December

there will be few quantities. In Green

skin there are only small sizes due to

too much heat in summer and too

littel water. They are awaiwint some

rain so the fruits can grow.

Beans:

Both Spain and maroc been on the

market.

Broccoli:

Large quantities and good quality.

Capsicum:

Huge quantities and little to no de-

mand. Yellow is cheap and red also.

Only green and orange maintain a lit-

tle. Sweet bite is ready and Palermo,

Ramiro and Capia in all colours as well.

A culinaric experience on same level as

the organic cherry tomato is the yellow

capia. It has a brix of 8 compared to 7

of the orange and the familiar sweet

red snack is down to 6 degre-

es.....Beware of the different qualities.

Capsicum with thin wall is still a pro-

blem and their comercial life is far

shorter than the caps of better quality.

The chili pepper is now of good quality

also.

Cauliflower:

Super quality and all sizes. Very very

tasty and tender now with the new

crop

Celery:

starts now week

47 with the first

departures

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Clementines:

The volumes of clementines are rising

but without prices going down. Growers

are not in a hurry to sell this year and

further to that the extreme heat this

year ( hottest october since 1971) the

fruits are not taking colour on the trees

and warehouses are less busy. The ex-

porting warehouses are in a situation

they are not used to as they can claim

reasonable prices since new markets as

for instance Poland are paying rather

high prices and cant even get the de-

manded quantities. Right now there is

now indication that prices will fall and if

there are any movements it will most

probably be a rise in prices as we are

getting close to the peak of the season.

However it has proven to be very diffi-

cult to prognostic the tendency with pri-

ces and makink fixed season prices has

been almost impossible.

Courgettes:

Steady prices and good quality

Cucumber:

Lots of optimism when the temperatu-

res fell from Monday to Tuesday and

relatively hiogh prices on the auktions

Monday morning.....then came the sun

back and temperatures rose back to 20+

in daytime and above 14 during night.

Prices has been falling continously since

Monday and already now full trocks are

being offered way below cost of produc-

tion. Until temperatures will maintain

steady under 15 in daytime and 5 during

night there is nothing that indictas pri-

ces will rise. Many supermarkes have

made small programs and there is a panic

now sending trucks up through europe

without destination.

Iceberg:

Good quality that only gets better since its

getting colder but now maybe a little too

light. The cyclus of Iceberg is now 65 days

compared to the normal 90. They are in

other words far ahead in harvesting and

they now predict a huge gap in production

the last week of the year or the first week

in the new year. Depending of course of

the climate.

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Kaki:

The sharon and Persimon of Huelva

has prooved to be in perfect

conditions. No skin damages and no

overriped fruits and no black

pulps...Hopefully they will eliminate

the problem soon in Valencia. Its a

complete disaster and up to 80% are

wastes this season. Prices remain

steady with the Valencian Kaki as an

incognito ! if there is any good qualty

they will be expensive and if they are

cheap probably its because the

quality is still poor.

Lemon:

Is there many cheap Spanish lemons

on the free markets ?? There are

some cheap to be found but how

man. In Spain they say different. No

sizes and growers are not negotiating

prices. Hences prices remain high and

its virtually impossible to make full

programs in the same size. Prices will

rather go up the coming weeks and

they are in no hurry to sell. The

demand will come sooner or later and

with the increasing quality problems

with other origens soon there will be

mainly Spanish lemon on the market.

Little gem:

Continues with usual good quality

Oranges:

Although the prices are high compared

to other seasons we are finally seeing a

tendency of lower prices which howe-

ver probably will last no longer than

few weeks since the waste of Naveline

in the field is up to 40%

Pomegranade:

still nice quality and prices remain

steady although they will soon rise.

Rasperry:

Increasing production in the varieties

with double cyclus. Good quality of

Glen Lyon and Brilliant and lots of pro-

blems with Sugana. The volumes are

increasing as we are getting closer to

christmas.

Romane salad:

Problem because of the strong winds.

They are taking of the outer leaves sin-

ce they have been damaged so we do

not recommend loading until the next

crop not affeed is ready. I.e in 4 days

Stawberry:

Plants have been put again since they

were too affected by the heat the last

weeks and seemingly the temperatures

will decline now. But the strawberries

are very much depending of the clima-

te right now. First Maroc is marketed

with departure from Spain.

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Tomatoes:

Lots of tomatoes and low prices. Many

cherry and plum cherry and low prices.

The demand of trimix is increasing. The

sunstream and rhe romantico are very

tasty now. There is a novelty underway

which is a Kumato Cherry....a Black che-

rry with same characteristic as the Ku-

mato. On the biologic front the quality is

absolutely excellent and the say with

longer commercial life than treated to-

matoes. The aroma is superb and parti-

culary the bio cherry is tasty with brix 2

points higher than the conventio-

nal...Maybe worth trying and the price

differential is not too excessive.

Xanadu:

This novelty is what is considering to be

replacing little gem. Full grown it has the

same size as the little gem, or a little lar-

ger, but its does not have the bitternes of

the little gem. Its sweet as its cousin the

Romaine salad but more tender and with

much more dark green leaves.

Contact us

Total Produce Sourcing Spain S.A

Total Produce Sourcing Spain S.A,

Calle Caminas 3, bajo Izq, 46530 Puçol,

(Valencia)

España

Tel: +34 961 95 84 17

Fax: + 34 961 95 80 40

Total Produce Sourcing Spain S.A, Avenida

Ricardo Soriano no 72,

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29601 Marbella

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Total Produce Sourcing Spain S.A,

Calle Fernando El Catolico 31,

Huelva

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