“Considerable price differences between small and large bell peppers”

The bell pepper market was very difficult in recent weeks. Because of the extremely warm weather, it wasn’t easy for the bell pepper production regarding quality. “A lot of bell peppers have low fruit weights. That means it becomes more of a puzzle to make 500 gramme-mixed packaging,” says Marco Bergman of Harvest House. “This doesn’t appear to be improving in the next few weeks, resulting in a challenge to deliver mixed bell peppers within specifications. Because of these lower weights, people want to or have to pay more than usual for larger bell peppers, due to the availability of larger bell pepper in general. We’re seeing considerable price differences between small bell pepper compared to the larger ones.”