date:May 31, 2016
Except for minimal recoveries, the tomato market has been particularly bad all year. Production in both western and southern Europe are at full tilt, but consumption is not keeping up.
The tomato market has been extremely poor for months now. For illuminated cultivators the season has not been good, and in the last three or four weeks, prices for traditional cultivation have also been very average. We had a period that was not bad in April, says Arne van Aalst of Prominent. These last fe