At the moment, the lettuce trade in Europe is a bit lacklustre, says exporter Henk van Doorne from 's-Gravenzande. "The regular customers are not really appearing. Fortunately there's a lettuce shortage in the United Kingdom, so I have a bit of a back door there, but on the whole it's very lacklustre. Right now, not much is going to far away destinations either, like Dubai and Qatar."
A small problem is that the garden centipede is causing damage to lettuce at various nurseries, therefore the head doesn't always reach the desired weight.