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Dirk van Nieuwkerk, Anaco Greeve:

“Everything called tomatoes is currently selling at bad prices in the Netherlands”

“Fortunately, I’m doing better than the tomato trade, or I would’ve ended up in hospital. From small to large and from vine to beefsteak, everything called tomato is currently selling at bad prices,” says Dirk van Nieuwkerk from Anaco Greeve. Yet he isn’t impressed. “It was bound to happen. And it happens every year when supply’s larger than demand. That results in a supply market, and you can only hope it is responded to.”

“If things are bad, it’ll be a few weeks before it recovers,” the tomato seller continues. “But that doesn’t say anything about the rest of the season. You just know the production then, and you can draw up the balance sheet to find out if estimates were good. In the past two years, we also had poorer weeks, but the growers did fairly well when looking at the entire seasons. Although they’ll naturally never admit that!”