AMMAN — Traders in the vegetable market said that most agricultural produce witnessed recently an increase in prices, but cucumbers exceeded them all, their prices increasing by more than 200 percent, according to Al-Ghad News.
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Director-General of the Farmers Union Mahmoud Al-Oran attributed the increase in the cucumber price, which reached JD1.1, to the fact that 50 percent of the farmers refused to plant them due to the heavy losses they incurred during this same period in 2021, when a kilogram cost five piasters.
He added that the low temperatures during the past weeks also negatively affected some crops, including cucumbers; on regular days, 25 boxes of cucumbers are harvested from plastic house, but in low temperatures, only five boxes are produced.
Oran added that the Kingdom’s daily consumption of cucumbers ranges between 250 tons to 300 tons, but currently on between 150 and 180 tons per day are delivered to the central market, which causes prices to rise.
The deputy head of the Syndicate of Importers and Exporters of Fruits and Vegetables, Thaer Al-Faqih, said that the main reasons for the rise in cucumber prices at this time of the year are the drop in temperatures and lower production.
Director of the Central Market for Vegetables and Fruits Kassab El-Shakhanbeh attributes the rise in cucumber prices to the cold weather at this time of the year, which reduced supply, and to the large quantities exported.
Shakhanbeh added that the first day of January, 177 tons of cucumbers were delivered to the market and sold at a minimum of 80 piasters and a maximum of 90 piasters per kilo, while the second day, 153 tons entered the market and were sold at a minimum of 60 piasters and a maximum of 75 piasters.
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