Next challenge on strawberries will be the increase in duty charged on imports from Egypt
The UK strawberry trade has experienced a crazy couple of months. The main UK production finished early, and lower Dutch volumes led to high prices for the longest period in many years, according to the Freshplaza.
“This situation has all been down to the weather and some UK growers throwing in the towel and not planting. Egypt is now in full flow, but even that started off
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