If you are a regular consumer of this small fruit because you like to include it in one of your recipes or take it with the yogurts, for example, a lot of attention. Because at least the blueberries coming from an area rich in them will stop collecting it for reasons where workers can do little. Thus, the blueberry harvest in Huelva. Huelva farmers no longer cover their costs, as the price selling the public is at clouds.
Brutal increase that forces the blueberry harvest to stop in Huelva
From UPA Huelva they already warned last week that the situation with the blueberry harvest in Huelva she was being critical. Once again the producers have encountered the problems of receiving so little that it is impossible for them to continue the campaign. And it is that the fruit is being sold in the markets at about 19-21 euros per kilo, while the field gatherers collect it from four euros. This represents a brutal rise in 425%.
The impossibility of cover production costs with this misery of profit forces farmers to say enough. "There are no leftover blueberries, but speculators," they have harshly communicated since UPA Huelva. Currently, the price of a 250 gram tub is set at about five euros. This means, doing calculations, that for every four units sold, so only one is charged by the farm worker. The intermediaries take the rest of the profits.
With that, from the agrarian organization they regret the «authentic disaster for the heritage and illusions put into the campaign »of Huelva. In addition, they criticize that consumers are paying a «gourmet price»For the product. Is detained blueberry harvest in Huelva it also has long-term effects, hence the advertisements launched towards the competent administrations:
'Take concrete legislative measures to protect the weakest links in the chain from this type of abuse. The survival of the sector is increasingly difficult and generational change, impossible »
