"The product is currently very scarce, which makes it correspondingly more expensive"
The heat in Italy is not only causing poorer quality watermelons and netted melons, but above all crop failures. "The product is currently very scarce, which also makes it correspondingly more expensive. Reticulated melons have recently had a price increase of 50 percent, but the price of watermelons has also slightly increased," Marco Di Maggio, managing director of Apimex Fruchthandels
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