"Rob Kuijper: "Warm weather good for melon consumption"
Price of Costa Rican melons significantly higher than last year.
"Supply is going slowly. In the future there will be more volumes coming in. The demand from different countries is good. Among others, Germany, Scandinavia, France and Italy are currently among our clientèle. Relatively high temperatures are obviously good for melon consumption and the quality is very good," said the importer. The melon season at Herman Kuijper traditionally runs until the end of April / beginning of May.
Rob expects that the price of melons will stabilize. "There is some commercial merchandise available from Panama, Honduras and Senegal and there are also some Brazilian melons on the market here and there, but it has added no pressure on the prices yet. In previous years you would have experienced hindrance from opportunist importers who had access to huge volumes during poor market conditions putting a strain on the market even more, but fortunately this has not happened yet so far."
For more information:
Rob Kuijper
Herman Kuijper BV
Tel.: +31 20 645 29 88
Fax: +31 20 645 24 22
www.hermankuijper.com
