In the 2018/2019 campaign, the average price of Spanish eggplant sales to the European Union is half of the sales price achieved by other countries, such as Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda, as evidenced by data that Hortoinfo has produced from the Euroestacom statistic service (Icex-Eurostat). In that period, Spain sold its eggplants in the EU at an average price of 1.050 €/ kg, while the Kenyan eggplants were paid at € 2.326 €/kg, the Mexican ones at 2,063, and those from Uganda at 2.069 €/kg.
The eggplants of other competing countries also achieved better prices. The eggplants from the Netherlands had an average price of 1.161 €/kg, the one from Belgium stood at 1.12 €/kg, and the average price for the eggplant from Morocco was 1.065 €/kg Germany's eggplants were sold at an average price of 1.293 €/kg, the Italian eggplants at 1.205, the Austrian ones at 1.102, the Czech Republic sold them at an average price of 1.519 €/kg, the Dominican Republic at 1.726, and the United Kingdom at 1.682 €/kg
Of the twenty largest eggplant suppliers to the EU, the only ones that sold their eggplants at a lower average price than the one obtained by Spain were Turkey ( 0.982 €/kg), France (1.043 €/kg), Poland ( 0.825 €/kg), Greece (0.461 €/kg), Estonia ( 0.89 €/kg), Macedonia (0.299 €/kg), and Latvia (0.899 €/kg).
In the last campaign, the EU bought a total of 391.93 million kilos of eggplants for 435.98 million euro, at an average price of 1,112 €/kg. Spain, the world's largest supplier of eggplant to the EU, sold a total of 212.97 million kilos for 223.68 million euro in the EU territory during the 2018/2019 campaign.
Source: hortoinfo.es
