TheinternationalmarketingmagazineforfreshproducebuyersinEurope
ByMauraMaxwell
Tuesday21stFebruary2017,9:37GMT
Spainlaunches
inquiryintoveg
pricefalls
Growerunionsaccuseretailersof
deliberatelyprovokingpricecrashesduringlastmonth�sproduction
shortage
T
heSpanishgovernmentistoopen
the Agrifood Information and Control
being detected, the appropriate action
an investigation into claims of
Agency(AICA)saidthecomplainthadbeen
mustbetakensothatwecanendtheabuse
abusive practices by retailers
passed to the ministry, who “is already
and unfair practices that harm producers,”
following sharp falls in vegetable prices at
analysing the behaviour and evolution of
said Francisco Vargas Viñolo, president of
thestartofthisyear.
the vegetable market to see if there has
Asaja-Almería.
beenanyabusivepracticesorbreachofthe
It follows a complaint filed last week by
law”.
agricultural union Asaja-Almería after
Theunioniscallingforclosercollaboration
in the supply chain in order to dismantle
pricesdroppedby85percentinweekstwo
Asaja said the investigation was an
the pressure exerted by the retailers and
and three. The union claims the decrease
important step in finding an explanation
build relationships based on “reciprocity,
was not justified as it did not take into
for what happened, particularly whether
transparency, good commercial practices
account the big fall in production during
thesupermarketscancelledordersinorder
andsustainability”.
those weeks and was not matched by a
to cause prices to fall, while at the same
correspondingfallinconsumerprices.
timeraisingpricestoprovokeaslowdown
indemand.
JoséMiguelHerreroof
“Inthecaseofanyirregularity
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