"Cauliflower market revived, broccoli doing well for weeks"

Cauliflower prices have been revived since Thursday last week, to a level of around one Euro. The broccoli price is around 90 cents. Koos Slagter of cultivation and trade company Fa. P.N. Slagter from Andijk, looks to the coming weeks with confidence. "Supply isn't overly large, the holidays are over and the weather is favourable for cauliflower and broccoli consumption."

"The past weeks, the price of broccoli has been better than that of cauliflower. These past three weeks, the cauliflower price was really lower, and there were some quality problems. Supply wasn't even that big, but because of the warm weather, prices were a lot lower", Koos continues. "The coming week, we'll be cutting less, and it won't be too warm. So not a lot of cauliflower will enter the market, which means prospects for the coming weeks are good."

Fa. P.N. Slagter supplies to both customers in the Netherlands and abroad, and Dutch exporters. The consequences of the Russian boycott for the cauliflower and broccoli market are limited thus far, according to Koos. "In the week that the borders closed, we had sold two cars full of cauliflower to Russia through exporters, but luckily one car could still enter Russia and the other one was still waiting to depart, so we could sell those elsewhere. At the moment we're not really suffering from it. I expect Russia will give us problems if there's a surplus here. Normally, in such a case, a lot of cauliflower goes to Poland and the Czech Republic. These countries normally export a lot to Russia, but not now, so that means there's enough cauliflower in those countries."

For more information:
Fa. P.N. Slagter
Kadijkweg 43
1619 PJ Andijk
T. +31(0)6 27 36 20 94
koos.slagter@bloemkool-westfriesland.nl
www.bloemkool-westfriesland.nl