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By Daniel Lafuente
Torregrosa
The producers of the South
of Spain keep on adapting the
production costs. In fact, they
were 55.417 euros per hectare,
according to a study made by
the Estación Experimental de
la Fundación Cajamar in which
it shows that the demands
of “inputs” of the producers
decreased considerably, with
The economic crisis reduces
the production costs in one
hectare of greenhouse
The production of vegetables in one hectare of greenhouse in the Spanish
Southeast costs approximately 4.3 per cent less than in the previous campaign.
The decrease of the invoice of the services and fertilizers has been the reason.
The labour increased so much and it already means 40 per cent of the costs of
the operation.
the next reaction of the market
to decrease the prices.
The decrease of the demand
was cruel last campaign and
the fertilizers invoice fell 34.7
per cent if it is compared with
the campaign 2007/2008. Although
during 2010 the price
of the products began to increase
because of the revaluation
of the cost of petroleum,
the investments were made at
the beginning of the campaign,
still with low prices.
This has allowed compensating
part of the increase of
these sendings in previous periods.
Nevertheless, “facing the
following campaign, probably
the costs in this sector will increase
again”, according to the
report of the fruits and vegetables
campaign of 2009/2010
made by Cajamar.
One of the most important
decreases happened in the ser-
vices with a fall in the invoice
of nearly nine per cent, mainly,
in the financial costs that changed
from 2.207 euros in the
campaign 2007-08 to 1.812
euros in the previous campaign,
a decrease of 18 per
cent.
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