A producer from the Franconian Segnitz is planning on selling ten kilograms of cucumber for ten Euros - as long as supplies last. "The large retail chains like Lidl, Rewe and Aldi only want packaged cucumbers. That's why these miniature cucumbers with premium quality are destroyed," so you can see in the beginning of the about seven-minute-long video by the Franconian Illustrated.
Retail chains will only accept the cucumbers if they are packaged. Franz Hagn, the producer from Segnitz (DE-97340) and his company Gartenbau Hagn now have to destroy thousands of kilograms of cucumbers.
"Starting from today, you can buy 10 kilograms for 10 Euros at Gartenbau Hagn in Segnitz - for two to three days, depending how long the supplies last. Charities can pick them up for free. The producer works twelve hours every day and for special promotions and deliveries he is lacking time, energy and money."
Every day he will harvest 1,500 to 2,000 kilograms - for the last 14 years the company has been producing miniature cucumbers and now he won't be able to sell them. He will have to terminate the production and destroy the current harvest. Of his volumes only 10 to 20% can be sold and the producer has incurred a loss of about 100,000 Euro.