Growers looking for new markets – BN DeStem

Growers looking for new markets – BN DeStem

WESTLAND (Reuters) – Producers who are affected by the Russian import sanctions are hard at work to find the product that actually Russia was still intended markets. How difficult the circumstances may be, they are not standing still and looking for solutions.
 

,, eg You look like you have another product to start growing. You try to look for roads. You’re an entrepreneur, ‘says vegetable grower Leon Duijvestijn from’ s Gravenzande. He garnered because of the boycott last week, but some 20,000 heads of curly endive, against 40,000 in a typical week.

If the sanctions persist counting Duijvestijn on red numbers in its accounting. But by the charges, for example by ordering fewer new plants down slightly, he can still hold out for a time.

Dramatic

 For Fruit Partners Blom from Deil grabs the Russian ban does ,, dramatic ‘out. The company that apples and pear and sorts, for more than 50 percent of sales, depending on the Russian market. A long continued boycott perhaps here means the end of the company.

Director Aart Blom now calling many supermarkets and traders, as if they do not want to diminish. Extra fruit from him It is very difficult because many customers locked into contracts with suppliers. And prices fall due to oversupply. But the alternative is that the apples and pears for a few cents each to the industry are sold to be squeezed to a pulp or juice and provides even less.

Far market

 Fruitbedrijf Pronk from Zwaagdijk, 2 tenths of the pear crop was destined for Russia, the hopes on distant markets such as China. The Netherlands has recently made arrangements whereby there for the first go pear can be shipped. There are many rules attached to it and it is probably not enough to compensate for everything. But it’s a start. And pears can always be laid. Still life in the cold room

Supermarkets and interest groups are trying to promote it too much with the consumer. Fruits and vegetables currently extra And in The Hague and Brussels politicians working on aid to the worst affected companies to succor. CBS figured Friday that only a few dozen of the approximately 4,000 Dutch exporters to Russia are affected by the boycott.

really hard