The grape prices fall up to 50% in ecuador of the grape harvest
October 8, 2009
In the middle of the harvest, the Coordinator of organizations of farmers and cattlemen (Coag) It has been reported that the grape prices have plummeted in the main producing areas up to 50%. The fall occurred in spite of the significant crop harvest expected, some 37 million hectolitres compared the 41.5 of the past year. By region, in La Mancha, which represents more than half of the vineyard of our country, the cut will reach 40%.
The Spanish wine sector experiencing a serious crisis of market especially affecting the wine growers: many do not they have direct compensatory as in other sectors and revenues depend exclusively on the sale of the grape. "According to" as recommended by the administrations, have adapted our varieties which were supposed better output commercial; We have invested to modernize the infrastructure of our cooperatives; We have gone from having "chemical" to be with highlight winemakers to produce wines of quality at prices competitivos… And yet, far from improving our incomes and give that necessary leap towards the future we have prices of similar grapes to the of makes decades and an increase in the costs to "we rather precipitate made vacuum", has argued the person in charge of the wine sector of Coag, Alejandro García Gasco. In fact, nearly 40,000 wine growers suffer losses already in the middle of the harvest, and in many cases, are unaware of the price that will finally receive.
Coag is currently working with the State administration and the autonomous communities to design an endorsed contract for the sector to ensure prices above costs of production. "Farmers and industry" We are condemned to understand us and in this sense we must move on the signing of contracts with multi-year review of each campaign. We need also the role of cooperatives in their influence markets to establish reference prices "comparable to the costs of the winegrower", has recognized García Gasco. The global context not invites optimism: the exports have fallen by 15.7 per cent in value and 16.6 per cent in volume during the first half of the year and the demand continues its downward trend of recent years, exacerbated by the crisis economic.
