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  • Spain: Fruit and vegetable prices triple in the Region of Murcia; big business accused of artificial inflation

    https://murciatoday.com/fruit-and-ve...1800018-a.html
    Date Published: 11/07/2022
    Fruit and vegetable prices triple in the Region of Murcia
    Farmers in the Region have accused big businesses of “artificially inflating” produce prices to turn a greater profit

    The agricultural sector is already struggling, between the war in Ukraine pushing up the costs of electricity and fertiliser and recent storms irrevocably damaging harvests, and this so-called artificial inflation is a further blow.

    The average farmer in Murcia is paid between 70 cents and 1.25 euros for apricots, while shoppers will fork out up to 3.95 euros for the same product in the supermarket. A similar trend can be seen in peaches, lemons and nectarines, whose prices are two and a half times higher in stores than what they originally cost.

    “It is a general trend throughout the country, and it is a very strong speculative phenomenon that is largely motivated by inflation..
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