The peach and nectarine campaign is looking positive. Prices are rather good, but rain damaged quite a lot of produce. Therefore the gross saleable production won't be exceptional.
According to a commercial operator that purchases the fruit and sells it to Italian and foreign retailers, the season is good for processing and wholesale operators.
"Let's take Big Top as an example. I sold some grade A to a few foreign retailers at €1.15, then prices dropped to €1.05/kg. Producers earn 60-65 euro cents, more than half than last year, but nothing exceptional. Nothing more than what they used to earn 20 years ago. Prices are not increasing also because quantities are low and the bad weather affected yields."
"Spain manages to have good quality and low prices. I saw large nectarines of an excellent quality at €0.70/kg. Their costs are lower, maybe they have such large companies that they manage to uniform the product."