A shortage of fruit and vegetables which has forced supermarkets to impose purchasing restrictions on products “is the tip of the iceberg”, the deputy president in the National Farmers’ Union has said
for domestic growers due to the impact of rising energy costs.
“There’s a lack of confidence from the growers that they’re going to get the returns that justify planting their glasshouses, and at the moment we’ve got a lot of glasshouses that would be growing the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, aubergine that are sitting there empty because they simply couldn’t take the risk to plant them with the crops, not thinking they’d get the returns from the marketplace.
While noting energy prices are currently “much lower than many anticipated”, he added: “They’re three times higher than they would have been this time last year and just simply haven’t been willing to take the risk that they would get the returns from the marketplace.
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